The Alchemist of Color: The Life and Vision of Oleksa Hryshchenko To traverse the life of Oleksa Hryshchenko, known to much of the Western world as Alexis Gritchenko, is to embark on a journey through the very heart of twentieth-century modernism. Born in 1883 in the small Ukrainian town of Krevets, Hryshchenko’s early intellectual foundations were laid not in a studio, but in the rigorous halls of academia, where he studied philology…