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Jirayr Hamparzoom Zorthian
From Monkey to Man

1953

About the Item

Jirayr Hamparzoom Zorthian was born April 14, 1911 in Kutahya, Turkey, of Armenian parents. At the age of three, he showed considerable talent in drawing and painting. Zorthian went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe. His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute. "From Monkey to Man", is a rare watercolor executed during the artist's Modernist period, signed and dated 1953, excellent original condition, suitably framed.
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    1953
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 19 in (48.26 cm)Width: 14.5 in (36.83 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    West Hollywood, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU130621722

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