First All-Ukrainian Exhibition
First All-Ukrainian Exhibition of the Association of Revolutionary Art of Ukraine: ARMU : catalog. - March, April, 1927 / Social Museum named after Artem ; foreword by the Central Bureau of the ARMU. - Kharkiv: Publishing House of the Central Bureau of the ARMU, 1927. 56, [2] p., [24] illustrated pages.
The Association of Revolutionary Art of Ukraine was founded in late 1925 by Kyiv artists, and in 1926 it became an All-Ukrainian organization that brought together artists of various creative directions. The preface to the catalog states that the exhibition is “essentially the first major exhibition of Ukrainian post-revolutionary art in general.” The exhibition covered all branches of visual arts: painters, graphic artists, sculptors, stage designers, architects, photographers, representatives of industrial art, and amateur artists of Ukraine exhibited their works. Odesa was represented by M. Zhuk, S. Kyshynovskyi, M. Hronets, P. Mitkovitser, and others.
The title of the copy of Odesa National Scientific Library has a dedication inscription “To the Ukrainian State Library in Odesa” from the exhibition participant, artist Hryhorii Ovksentiyevych Dovzhenko (1899-1980), who was a student at the Odesa Art Institute at the time and belonged to a group of young Boychukists.