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1909 Smyrna, Turkey - 1977. Known for: Landscape, figure and still life painting, teaching.
Sarkis Sarkisian was a painter and teacher, who spent most of his career in Detroit, Michigan, and later said: "Detroit has give me everything. I was an immigrant kid, who came here at 13". (Detroit... Read full biography
Sarkis Sarkisian was a painter and teacher, who spent most of his career in Detroit, Michigan, and later said: "Detroit has give me everything. I was an immigrant kid, who came here at 13". (Detroit News) He emigrated there with his Armenian family from Smyma, Turkey in 1922. From a young age, he... Read full biography
Sarkis Sarkisian was a painter and teacher, who spent most of his career in Detroit, Michigan, and later said: "Detroit has give me everything. I was an immigrant kid, who came here at 13". (Detroit News) He emigrated there with his Armenian family from Smyma, Turkey in 1922. From a young age, he showed art interest and talent. Sarkisian studied under John Wicker at the Wicker School of Fine Arts, and with John Carroll at the Art School of the Detroit Society of Arts & Crafts* where Sarkisian... Read full biography
Sarkis Sarkisian was a painter and teacher, who spent most of his career in Detroit, Michigan, and later said: "Detroit has give me everything. I was an immigrant kid, who came here at 13". (Detroit News) He emigrated there with his Armenian family from Smyma, Turkey in 1922. From a young age, he showed art interest and talent. Sarkisian studied under John Wicker at the Wicker School of Fine Arts, and with John Carroll at the Art School of the Detroit Society of Arts & Crafts* where Sarkisian was hired as an assistant instructor of drawing and design in 1933. He became a full instructor in 1934, and was named Director in 1947. In addition, he taught classes for the Birmingham Society of Women Painters 1945-54. As a teacher, "Sarkisian... Read full biography
Sarkis Sarkisian was a painter and teacher, who spent most of his career in Detroit, Michigan, and later said: "Detroit has give me everything. I was an immigrant kid, who came here at 13". (Detroit News) He emigrated there with his Armenian family from Smyma, Turkey in 1922. From a young age, he showed art interest and talent. Sarkisian studied under John Wicker at the Wicker School of Fine Arts, and with John Carroll at the Art School of the Detroit Society of Arts & Crafts* where Sarkisian was hired as an assistant instructor of drawing and design in 1933. He became a full instructor in 1934, and was named Director in 1947. In addition, he taught classes for the Birmingham Society of Women Painters 1945-54. As a teacher, "Sarkisian spelled out his own philosophy of painting: 'The only way to be an artist is to know yo... Read full biography
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Keywords (25)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Still Life
Art Association
- •Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts
- •Scarab Club, Detroit
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Bakkom Photo Collection, St. Paul, Minnesota (1)
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Detroit Institute of Art
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts