Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk

In 1890, her father was transferred to St.Petersburg and she received her first art lessons from the Polish painter, Jan Ciągliński.

[2] She completed her studies in 1909 in Paris, at the Académie Ranson, where she worked with Félix Vallotton and Maurice Denis.

After a tour of Italy with him and a friend, she returned to Galicia and became involved in the local art community.

During the Ukrainian War of Independence, she created designs for paper money and government securities.

In 1996, her name was among the forty inscribed on the Monument of Repressed Artists [uk] at the National Academy.