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ENThe name of the Lithuanian artist Janina Monkutė-Marks, who has been living overseas for many years, has been not long ago known to a narrow circle of the people interested in art and investigating her work. Today, she is famed not only for her works but also for the Janina Monkutė- Marks Museum-Gallery opened in Kėdainiai a couple of years ago. The publication thoroughly presents the artist’s biography and discusses her work. The artist J. Monkutė-Marks has been active in the field of art life of Lithuanian émigrés and that of America over four decades. She has organized more than twenty exhibitions of her works in the most varied exhibition halls. The great majority of her works (painting and graphic), covering the period between 1958–2001, were brought to Lithuania on her own initiative. The carpets, tapestries and other textile works woven in 1970–2001 also found their niche in five halls of the reconstructed building (reconstruction architect Algimantas Lučkaitis) of the early 20th c. In the late 2004 Janina Monkutė-Marks was awarded the Kėdainiai Region Culture Prize for her contribution to the development of the region’s culture and a pithy collaboration with the district educational institutions. In 1989, the Lithuanian Art Museum received a present from J. Monkutė-Marks: a color linocut from the cycle People on the Journey created in 1968 (tripartite, 123/115; ED 149869; G 23240). It is the first and as yet an only work by this prominent Lithuanian artist kept in the Lithuanian Art Museum.