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presenting
The Art of American artist
Jirayr Zorthian
Paintings and Works on Paper 1932 - 1957
*July 7 - August 15, 2008*
JIRAYR ZORTHIAN
(1911 - 2004)
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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. His works are on record from that time on.
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. Other aspects of his art career included forty seven years of constructing and designing buildings. Zorthian was also extensivley involved in architecture and design. |
The Yale Period: c.1932
Jirayr Zorthian
"The Corner Barber Shop"
Oil on Canvas
American, Signed, c.1938
30.5 x 30.5 Inches
Jirayr Zorthian
"The Pirate"
Oil on Canvas
American, Signed, c.1938
44 x 36 Inches
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Jirayr Zorthian "The Wrestler" Oil on Canvas American, Signed, c.1932 30 x 23 1/2 Inches |
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Jirayr Zorthian "Clasped Hands" Oil on Canvas American, Signed, c.1932 22 x 26 Inches |
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Jirayr Zorthian "Young Armenian" Oil on Canvas American, Signed, c.1932 30 x 24 Inches |
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Jirayr Zorthian "The Thinker" Oil on Canvas American, Estate Stamped, c.1932 24 x 20 Inches |
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Jirayr Zorthian "Classical Male" Oil on Canvas American, Signed, c.1932 16 x 20 1/2 Inches |
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Jirayr Zorthian "Portrait of the Model" Oil on Canvas American, Signed, c.1932 18 x 22 Inches |
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Jirayr Zorthian "Repose" Oil on Canvas American, Signed, c.1932 19 x 16 Inches |
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Jirayr Zorthian "Still LIfe in Blue with Jug and Onions" Oil on Canvas American, Signed, c.1932 19 x 16 Inches |
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Jirayr Zorthian "Still LIfe in Green with Jug, Bowl and Garlic" Oil on Canvas American, Signed, c.1932 19 x 16 Inches |
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Jirayr Zorthian "Still LIfe in Pink with Pitcher and Onions" Oil on Canvas American, Signed, c.1932 18 x 20 Inches |
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Jirayr Zorthian "Still Life with Artist's Reflection" Oil on Canvas American, Signed, c.1932 24 x 30 Inches |
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Jirayr Zorthian "The Banker" Oil on Canvas American, Signed, c.1932 24 x 30 Inches |
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The Modernist Period: c.1945-1958 |
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"Autoportrait" Oil on Canvas American, Signed, c.1945 24 x 18 Inches |
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"The Framer" Oil on Panel American, Signed, Dated 1953 30 x 21 1/2 Inches |
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"Jirayr" Oil on Panel American, Signed, Dated 1953 22 x 18 Inches |
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"The Drinkers" Mixed Media on Paper American, Signed, c.1950 12 x 16 Inches |
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"The Conference" Oil on Canvas American, Signed, c.1945 23 x 31 Inches |
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"The family" Oil on Panel American, Signed, Dated 1953 48 x 36 Inches |
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"Coco" Oil on Panel American, Signed, Dated 1953 35 x 29 Inches |
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"The Recital" Pen & Ink on Paper American, Signed, c.1950 14 1/2 x 19 1/2 Inches |
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"Nude en Repose #1" Oil Pastel American, Signed, c.1948 20 x 24 Inches |
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"Nude en Repose #2" Oil Pastel American, Estate Stamped, c.1948 20 x 24 Inches |
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"Italian Wine Drinkers" Mixed Media on Paper American, Estate Stamped, c.1950 13 x 8 1/2 Inches |
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"Tamara" Oil on Panel American, Estate Stamped, c.1955 24 x 20 Inches |
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" Orchestra" Mixed Media on Paper American, Estate Stamped, c. 1950 23 x 18 Inches |
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"Reclining Nude" Mixed Media on Paper American, Estate Stamped, c. 1950 18 x 23 Inches |
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"The Jazz Singer" Mixed Media on Paper American, Signed, Dated 1951 23 x 18 Inches |
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"Burlesque #2" Mixed Media on Paper American, Estate Stamped, c.1953 23 x 18 Inches |
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Jirayr Zorthian
Murals: A large rock mural in the Laura Scudder home in La Habra, California, 1957. "Phantasmagoria of Military Intelligence Training" A large serial mural 157' long and 4' high. Commissioned by the U.S. Army and later lost, 1945. "The
Development of Power" and "The Development
of Light" "Restoration After the Hurricane," Mural in United Illuminating Plant, New Haven, Connecticut. Twelve (12) murals
in the Governors Reception Room in Nashville, Tennessee. Other murals are in
churches, hotels, post offices and residences. Architecture Consultant for the publication, "Engineering Science", 1960-1972. Coordinator, Mural Competition, Glendale Water Reclamation Plant, 1970. Design Consultant for the F.C. Nash & Company, department stores, Pasadena, California, 1967. Combat Artist for the United States Navy. Sent to Formosa and Viet Nam to observe, draw and paint his impressions. The government owns the resulting painting and drawings, including a portrait of John F. Kennedy. Chairman, "Art in Architecture," Los Angeles, California, 1956 Chairman, Pasadena Art Fair, 1954, 1955. Center for Research
and Development of Industrial Discards with the Emphasis on Aesthetics.
Since 1945 at his 45 acre ranch in Altadena, California, he has been
recycling materials to construct buildings, corrals, walls, stables,
large wall and tower sculptures. Teaching:
Shows:
Gallery in Pasadena, 1996. "Artists Influenced by Architecture," Novaspace, Los Angeles Theater Center. Baghdad Bi-Annual International Festival of Art, In Iraq. Represented the United States with three large compositions in 1988. Los Angeles County Fair, 1974, Guest artist with a one man show.
Pacific Ocean Park, 1964 Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1954 "The Divorcement," A collage which hung in a show entitled "Twenty four most promising United States Artists."1953 Trigg Ison Fine
Art Inc.: "Jirayr Zorthian: A Lifetime retrospective" 2004
Tennessee Colonel bestowed by Governor George Mc Wherther, 1987. "Best Artist of Pasadena," and "Most Eccentric" voted by the people in a survey of the, Pasadena Weekly, 1989 Gold Crown Award, for art, by the Pasadena Arts Council, 1983 First Prize, drawing, Pasadena Society of Artists, 1959 Purchase Prize,
Los Angeles Country Museum of Art , 1949, for
June 13, 1997. Smithsonian Archives of American Art at the Huntington Library "The Wizard's Eye, Visions of American Resourcefulness," by Jim Higgs, Chronical Books. Featuring the works of Jirayr H. Zorthian of walls, buildings, outdoor sculptures, gates, sculpture compositions and land sculpture composed of mostly recycled materials. "No
Ordinary Genius," Life and Times, PBS TV production
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