Below are fifty six pysanky written by a Hutsul folk artist. Eudokia Kushnierchuk was born in Kosmach, in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine, and learned to write pysanky there when she was 10 years old. She continued to write them after she emigrated to the USA and settled in the Detroit area. Kushnierchuk used traditional techniques and motifs, and the traditional Kosmach colors of white, yellow, orange, green and brown.

These pysanky were exhibited at the Detroit Historical Museum from March to June 2013, and are originally from the Ukrainian folk arts collection of Kalyna Mykolenko. The pysanky are depicted here with multiple views of each, so as to be able to see and appreciate the full design.

There are a variety of division here, but one preferred by Kushnierchuk was a lateral division with a wide, intricate dividing band, like the fish pysanka above. The dividing band was quite wide, and comprised of five or more symmetric bands.  Where she eschewed symmetry was in the motifs she put in the lateral medallions; she favored fish, birds and plants, but the two sides were almost always different. For this type of pysanka I have included three photos: front, back and band.