Yukhym Mykhailiv
After being increasingly attacked in official Party newspapers, he was finally arrested in May 1934 on the preposterous charge of "organizing an armed uprising". He was exiled to the Russian Arctic, where he contracted malaria and may have suffered from pre-existing esophageal cancer. All medical treatment was denied, and he died in July 1935.
His artworks were preserved by his wife, who took them with her when she left Kyiv as a refugee in 1943. She and her daughter ended up in a displaced persons camp near Augsburg, and in 1949 they and Mykhailiv's artworks came to the United States. A significant fraction of those works became part of the UHEC permanent collection through a bequest in 2006. A portion of these were included in a major exhibition by the UHEC that opened in 2019.
