Hurhula, Iryna

Hurhula, Iryna [Гургула, Ірина], b 3 May 1904 in Bolekhiv, Dolyna county, Galicia, d 20 May 1967 in Lviv. Art scholar. A graduate of Lviv University, she joined the staff of the National Museum in Lviv in 1923 and of the Ukrainian State Museum of Ethnography and Crafts in 1944. For a time she served as director of the latter museum. She is the author of Narodne mystetstvo zakhidnykh oblastei Ukraïny (Folk Art of the Western Oblasts of Ukraine, 1966) and the coauthor of Narodni maistry (Folk Craftsmen, 1959) and Vbrannia (Dress, 1961). She did the annotations in Olena Kulchytska’s Narodnyi odiah zakhidnykh oblastei URSR (Folk Costumes of the Western Oblasts of the Ukrainian SSR, 1959) and wrote scholarly and popular articles on Ukrainian folk art, guide books, catalogues, and booklets.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]