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1913 New York City - 2010 Great Neck, New York. Known for: Indian-frontier genre painting, pulp novel illustration.
The following article by Shari Morrison, submitted by Debrianna Mansini, was written for publication in Western Art & Architecture, April/May 2013. Ernest Chiriacka (1913-2010). If the name Ernest... Read full biography
The following article by Shari Morrison, submitted by Debrianna Mansini, was written for publication in Western Art & Architecture, April/May 2013. Ernest Chiriacka (1913-2010). If the name Ernest Chiriacka (1913-2010) isn't familiar to you as a leading Western artist, there's reason for that. It... Read full biography
The following article by Shari Morrison, submitted by Debrianna Mansini, was written for publication in Western Art & Architecture, April/May 2013. Ernest Chiriacka (1913-2010). If the name Ernest Chiriacka (1913-2010) isn't familiar to you as a leading Western artist, there's reason for that. It isn't that he wasn't trained at the best art schools in America, for he studied at the venerable Art Students League and at the equally prestigious National Academy of Design. For four years he studied... Read full biography
The following article by Shari Morrison, submitted by Debrianna Mansini, was written for publication in Western Art & Architecture, April/May 2013. Ernest Chiriacka (1913-2010). If the name Ernest Chiriacka (1913-2010) isn't familiar to you as a leading Western artist, there's reason for that. It isn't that he wasn't trained at the best art schools in America, for he studied at the venerable Art Students League and at the equally prestigious National Academy of Design. For four years he studied under Harvey Dunn, a protégé of Howard Pyle, at the Grand Central School of Art. As a young lad Chiriacka would draw with anything he could find, charcoal from the fire, pieces of sheet rock that he could use like chalk on sidewalks. By the time he... Read full biography
The following article by Shari Morrison, submitted by Debrianna Mansini, was written for publication in Western Art & Architecture, April/May 2013. Ernest Chiriacka (1913-2010). If the name Ernest Chiriacka (1913-2010) isn't familiar to you as a leading Western artist, there's reason for that. It isn't that he wasn't trained at the best art schools in America, for he studied at the venerable Art Students League and at the equally prestigious National Academy of Design. For four years he studied under Harvey Dunn, a protégé of Howard Pyle, at the Grand Central School of Art. As a young lad Chiriacka would draw with anything he could find, charcoal from the fire, pieces of sheet rock that he could use like chalk on sidewalks. By the time he was a teenager he was known as the "Rembrandt of Third Avenue.". With a natural talent for drawing, Chiriacka would... Read full biography
Ernest Chiriaka - Artist Info
About Ernest Chiriaka: Keywords
Keywords (36)
Art Method
- •Comic Book, Comic Strip Artist, Comic Figures
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
- •Contemporary Impressionism, After 1940
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Indians, Native American Specialty
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Pin-Ups, Pin-Up Girls
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Art Teacher
- •Harvey Dunn
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Grand Central School of Art, Student
- •National Academy of Design School, New York, Teacher
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •C. R. Smith Collection-Western
Added Description
- •COLLIER'S Magazine Illustrator and/or Photographer
- •Pseudonym ("Nome de Plume") Used
- •Pulp Fiction Illustrator
- •SATURDAY EVENING POST Illustrator and/or Photographer
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Greek
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City
- •Kennedy Galleries, New York City
- •Mongerson-Wunderlich Gallery, Chicago