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Sarkis Erganian

Sarkis Daltzar Erganian (1874 - 1950) was active/lived in Missouri, New York / Turkey, Russian Federation.  Sarkis Erganian is known for Landscape and marine painting.

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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 ordered several paintings and invited him to her house. 

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Facts about Sarkis Erganian

   Sarkis Erganian  Born:  1874 - Trebizond, Asiatic Turkey
Died:   1950 - St. Louis, Missouri
Known for:  Landscape and marine painting
Name variants:  Sarkus Erganion

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 t  ...  Displaying 750 of 3773 characters.

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