Галина Стельмащук • Марія Гарасовська-Дачишин

128 SUMMARY IN ENGLISH As an integral part of Ukraine’s talent and intellectual power, the post-war immigrants had represented the Ukrainian traditions and value in many countries of the world. This richness of talents among the Ukrainian immigrants included: political figures, engineers, priests, physicians, farmers and workers, remarkable writers, scientists, teachers, artists, actors and sculptors. Concerning artists, it must be noted, that besides their Homeland, they relied on their peers, such as e.g. sculptor Alexander Archipenko or painter Oleksa Hrychshenko. Ukrainian artists, in particular, as no other group of Ukrainian immigrants, succeeded in the fulfilment of the task, set to themselves by the immigrants of the Ukrainian origin – to become the ambassadors of the nation, humiliated by the non-existent independent statehood of their Homeland. Maria Harasowska- Daczyszyn was one of these artists. She is one of many artists of the 20th century that left her homeland of Ukraine and immigrated to a new country. During her lifetime she created over a thousand paintings. At each of her 25 personal exhibitions she exhibited new paintings. The foreign press (in the US and Canada) published lots of articles about Maria Harasowska-Daczyszyn. Art critics, writers and artists Volodymyr Lasovskiy, Lyubomyr Kuzma, poets Hanna Cherin, Theodor Kurpita, writer Yuriy Stefanyk (Yuriy Klenoviy, son of Vasyl Stefanyk), Vira Ke, Ruslana Orenchuk, Mariya Klymchak dedicated their articles to the creative activity of Maria Harasowska-Daczyszyn, Mika, as she was called by her friends. Her art was highly appreciated by such remarkable artists like Svyatoslav Hordynskiy, Mykhaylo Moroz, Stepan Rozhok, Anatoliy Kolomiyets, Bohdan Stebelskiy, Pavlo Lopata, as well as Jaine Jaiffe, Irving G. Stone and others.