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Nikanor Onatskiy with his family Nikanor Onatskiy (1875-1937) is
a prominent Ukrainian artist and teacher. He is one
of the students of Ilya Ryepin
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A bit of history The museum was founded in
1920 The collection mainly consited of art works from private
colletions, including the collection of O.Hansen The building of the museum was built by the architect G.Scholz at the end of the 19th century
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Museum today The museum is located in Sumy downtown It
has more than 15000 exhibits The gallery consists of 2
departments: the department of decorative art and the department of folk decorative art; One can find works of Borovykovskyy, Kiprenskyy, Shevchenko, Zhemchuzhnikov, Ayvazovskiy. The painting on the background was created by Cherednichenko O. and is called ‘The cape, the road’