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Arman Tateos Manookian

Arman Tateos Manookian (1904 - 1931) was active/lived in Hawaii, Rhode Island / France.  Arman Manookian is known for Modernist marine painting, murals, illustration.

The following biography is from John Seed of Hemet, California, who published much of this text in a feature article on Manookian in the November, 2001 issue of Honolulu" Magazine.

Arman Tateos Manookian is one of Hawaii's most celebrated modern artists, even though he worked there for only five years and eleven months before taking his own life at the age of 27. His works are celebrated for their bold, high-key coloring, and for his idealized portrayals of Hawaiian life and history. He is considered a pioneering Modernist even though the artist himself always insisted that his art was derived from Western Classical and Renaissance values.

Manookian, the eldest of three children, was born on May 15, 1904 in Constantinople, the troubled heart of the collapsed former Ottoman Empire. His given name, which he used until joining the U.S. Marine Corps was Tateos (Tady to his family), which is the name of one the two apostles who brought Christianity to Armenia in 35 A.   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11015 characters.]  Artist bio

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4 Book References for Arman Tateos Manookian
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1992 Forbes, David Encounters with Paradise Views of Hawaii and Its People 1778-1941 285 Yes
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