Three days into the invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces destroyed a museum in the village of Invankiv. Lost forever were 14 works by Maria Prymachenko, Ukraine’s most beloved 20th-century painter. Born in 1909 in Bolotnya, near Kyiv, Prymachenko was known for colorful depictions of village life, folk tales, flora, and fauna. This imagery, which appeared on Ukrainian stamps and coins, was perceived as simple and playful. Yet the artist often infused it with the pain she’d endured—infection with polio, the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s, the deaths of her brother and husband in W.W. II, and the Russification of her country. She died in 1997. Since 2022, closer attention has been paid to the messages within Prymachenko’s paintings, and to the way her landscapes and creatures speak to political and emotional issues. Featuring more than 100 paintings, embroideries, and ceramics, this is the largest-ever Prymachenko exhibition outside of Europe. —Jeanne Malle