Ona Dokalskaitė-Paškevičienė
Ona Dokalskaitė-Paškevičienė was a Lithuanian-American painter.
Biography
Ona Dokalskaitė was born in Sejny, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. She studied drawing under Juozas Zikaras at the Panevėžys gymnasium. In 1928 she moved with her widowed mother to what is now Belarus. After the graduation from Vitebsk Arts Tekhnikum in 1932 she earned her living by drawing caricatures for Belarusian magazines and newspapers. In 1938 she took part in an exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.In 1933 she met in Minsk and married artist Nicolay Paskevich When the advancing Nazi German army took Minsk, the family had to flee. With them they had Ona's sister's baby daughter Birutė. In 1942 she eventually reached Lithuania and settled in Kaunas. Here they had their own daughter Alyja
With the advance of Red Army, the family tried to flee to Switzerland, but they were placed into the displaced persons camp in the American Zone of Germany in 1944. In 1949 they moved to the United States. After living in New York, in 1982 the family moved to Santa Monica.