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Michael Sarisky

Michael Aloysius Sarisky (1906 - 1974) was active/lived in Ohio.  Michael Sarisky is known for Figure, genre, and landscape.

He attended Cleveland Institute of Art class of 1928, winner of many awards and a scholarship to the Slade Art School in London which he attended 1924-1929.  He exhibited at many of the Cleveland Museum of Art's May shows, most notably in 1946 when he received the first prize for three biblical subjects, Jacob's Dream, Good Samaritan, and Deposition. Three of his paintings Jacob's Dream, Design for Music & Mother & Child are in the permanent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.  He was a WPA artist '33 -'34, who completed several murals and public works of art, most notably for The Terminal Tower, The Cleveland Public Auditorium, and the 23 ½ ft. by 11¼ ft mural on canvas for the Rocky River Masonic Lodge.

He was friends with Carl Gaertner & Roy Lichtenstein.  Michael's wife Isabel Wilson left him to marry Roy Lichtenstein.  He was on the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Art.

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Michael Sarisky


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Advertising Art
  • Easel Painting
Art MediaArt Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
  • Still Life
Art Association
  • Cleveland Society of Artists
Art Teacher
  • Henry Keller
Art School
  • Slade School of Art, London, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • Prix de Rome Prize
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Figure Specialty
  • Genre Specialty
  • WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings

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