Paukštienė Jadvyga

The painter and graphic artist was born in 1913 in Liepaja, and died in 2005 in the USA. After graduating from Kaunas Art School in 1938, in the studio of P. Kalpokas, she deepened her knowledge in Paris at the Higher National School of Fine Arts with Professor D’Espagnat. In 1937, for the carpet project for the Lithuanian pavilion at the Paris World Exhibition of Art and Technology, she was awarded a gold medal. In 1944, she left for Germany, and from 1949 – to the USA. She taught folk art at the Chicago Higher Lithuanian School. She wrote articles about art in the publications “Draugas”, “Moteris”, and was a member of the Chicago Lithuanian Artists’ Union. She was honored with the Cultural Council Prize of the US LB (2001).

She organized over 15 personal exhibitions in various US cities.