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Edmund K Yaghjian BIOGRAPHY
1903 Harpoot, Armenia - 1997 Columbia, South Carolina. Known for: Modernist landscape and figure painting, drawing, teaching.
The following, submitted October 2004, is from Robert Jones, former student of the artist. Edmund Yaghjian was head of the art department of the University of South Carolina and was then Artist in... Read full biography
The following, submitted October 2004, is from Robert Jones, former student of the artist. Edmund Yaghjian was head of the art department of the University of South Carolina and was then Artist in Residence there. He was a student of John Sloan and Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New... Read full biography
The following, submitted October 2004, is from Robert Jones, former student of the artist. Edmund Yaghjian was head of the art department of the University of South Carolina and was then Artist in Residence there. He was a student of John Sloan and Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York, and his work has the same spirit as the Ash Can School of painters. The colors orange and turquoise are often included in his works. His work is in public buildings and private collections in... Read full biography
The following, submitted October 2004, is from Robert Jones, former student of the artist. Edmund Yaghjian was head of the art department of the University of South Carolina and was then Artist in Residence there. He was a student of John Sloan and Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York, and his work has the same spirit as the Ash Can School of painters. The colors orange and turquoise are often included in his works. His work is in public buildings and private collections in Columbia. His wife, Candy Yaghjian, was a watercolor artist. One son is an artist. Among his students are Jasper Johns and the well-known mural artist, Blue Sky, as well as Bill Poulos of Rice University. He granted me an art scholarship at the University... Read full biography
The following, submitted October 2004, is from Robert Jones, former student of the artist. Edmund Yaghjian was head of the art department of the University of South Carolina and was then Artist in Residence there. He was a student of John Sloan and Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York, and his work has the same spirit as the Ash Can School of painters. The colors orange and turquoise are often included in his works. His work is in public buildings and private collections in Columbia. His wife, Candy Yaghjian, was a watercolor artist. One son is an artist. Among his students are Jasper Johns and the well-known mural artist, Blue Sky, as well as Bill Poulos of Rice University. He granted me an art scholarship at the University and I studied under him until I graduated in 1965.... Read full biography
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The following, submitted October 2004, is from Robert Jones, former student of the artist.
Edmund Yaghjian was head of the art department of the University of South Carolina and was then Artist in Residence there.
He was a student of John Sloan and Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York, and his work has the same spirit as the Ash Can School of painters. The colors orange and turquoise are often included in his works.
His work is in public buildings and private collections in Columbia. His wife, Candy Yaghjian, was a watercolor artist. One son is an artist. Among his students are Jasper Johns and the well-known mural artist, Blue Sky, as well as Bill Poulos of Rice University.
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