Ivan Ivanovych Trush (Ukrainian: Іван Іванович Труш, TROOSH; 18 January 1869 – 21 March 1941) was a Ukrainian impressionist painter, a master of landscape and portraiture, an art critic, and active community patron of arts in Galicia or Halychyna – a historical region in western Ukraine.
It was at this time that Trush became involved with the Shevchenko Scientific Society, for which he completed "a number of works of art, primarily portraits".
The painter's activism, vast and dynamic creative output, numbered over 6,000 works,[1] inspired a rebirth of painting in Galicia.
Among these are writers Vasyl Stefanyk and Ivan Franko, poet Lesya Ukrainka, political theorist Mykhailo Drahomanov, composer Mykola Lysenko, and linguist P.
[3] In the late 1930s, Ivan Trush's painting "Landscape from the outskirts of Naples" was presented to the National Museum in Kraków.