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1874 Trebizond, Asiatic Turkey - 1950 St. Louis, Missouri. Known for: Landscape and marine painting.
Sarkis Erganian, whose work also appears at auction under the incorrect spelling of Sarkus Erganian, worked from a small studio in St. Louis, Missouri, exhibiting his signature landscape and marine... Read full biography
Sarkis Erganian, whose work also appears at auction under the incorrect spelling of Sarkus Erganian, worked from a small studio in St. Louis, Missouri, exhibiting his signature landscape and marine paintings with the Saint Louis Art Guild. He led a colorful life through poverty, war, and the... Read full biography
Sarkis Erganian, whose work also appears at auction under the incorrect spelling of Sarkus Erganian, worked from a small studio in St. Louis, Missouri, exhibiting his signature landscape and marine paintings with the Saint Louis Art Guild. He led a colorful life through poverty, war, and the Bolshevik threat, spanning several continents. Born into poverty in Asiatic Turkey, from early on, he had a desire to paint and learn, saving the little money he could get to attend the prestigious State... Read full biography
Sarkis Erganian, whose work also appears at auction under the incorrect spelling of Sarkus Erganian, worked from a small studio in St. Louis, Missouri, exhibiting his signature landscape and marine paintings with the Saint Louis Art Guild. He led a colorful life through poverty, war, and the Bolshevik threat, spanning several continents. Born into poverty in Asiatic Turkey, from early on, he had a desire to paint and learn, saving the little money he could get to attend the prestigious State Fine Arts School in Constantinople. He spent a year there, under harrowing conditions, returning home as a stowaway on a sea vessel, starved, and violently ill. Nursed back to health by the family, he obtained a position as a teacher but went back to... Read full biography
Sarkis Erganian, whose work also appears at auction under the incorrect spelling of Sarkus Erganian, worked from a small studio in St. Louis, Missouri, exhibiting his signature landscape and marine paintings with the Saint Louis Art Guild. He led a colorful life through poverty, war, and the Bolshevik threat, spanning several continents. Born into poverty in Asiatic Turkey, from early on, he had a desire to paint and learn, saving the little money he could get to attend the prestigious State Fine Arts School in Constantinople. He spent a year there, under harrowing conditions, returning home as a stowaway on a sea vessel, starved, and violently ill. Nursed back to health by the family, he obtained a position as a teacher but went back to Constantinople two years later. This time around he found a benefactor in the daughter of a Turkish Government official, who o... Read full biography
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About Sarkis Erganian: Keywords
Keywords (13)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Asia, Orient
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Turkey
Art Teacher
- •Jean Leon Gerome
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Marine Before 1900