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George Marinko

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George J. Marinko (1908 - 1989) was active/lived in Connecticut, New York.  George Marinko is known for Painting-surreal dream-like images, figure, mask.

In the early 1930s, George Marinko, was known as one of the most pure surrealists of all the American artists pursuing that pioneering style.  He also did automatic drawing that revealed through his personal complex symbolism his interest in mythology and psycho-analysis.  Many of his works had allusions to the temptations of Adam and Eve and other suggestions of male/female conflict.  His images seem dreamlike and include clowns, humans, dolls, and puppets as well as objects that are bending and twisting, and "any one of them may be running, burning, or melting" (Falk 2185).

His painting, Sirius (the Dog Star, the brightest star in the heavens), seems an incongruous combination of very realistically-painted still-life objects including a wooden contraption resembling a human pelvis, and a bright red human leg to the knee, with a rope or snake wrapped around its ankle.

His paintings were included in the ground breaking 1936 Surrealist exhibition at   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3416 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about George Marinko

   Publications  Book References:  20
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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for George Marinko
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Surrealism USA January 2005 Dervaux, Isabelle Yes
20 Book References for George Marinko
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
1998 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Record of the Carnegie Institute International Exhibition, 1896-1996
(Exhibition catalog)		 3724 No
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1991 Falk, Peter Hastings Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 335 No
1991 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor); Andrea Ansell Bien The Annual & Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1918-1989)
(Exhibition catalog)		 468 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings George Marinko: Pioneer American Surrealist
(Exhibition catalog)		 16 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1977 Wechsler, Jeffrey Surrealism and American Art 1931-1947
(Exhibition catalog)		 116 Yes
1969 Brockton Art Center Three Centuries of New England Art From New England Museums 48 No
1968 Mattatuck Historical Society The Connecticut Artists Collection 84 No
1940 Ball, Charlotte (editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1940-1941, Volume III Contemporary American Artists 790 No
1940 IBM Collection Contemporary Art of the U S (Golden Gate Exposition1940)
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 No
1937 Breckinridge, Mrs. H. (essay) Second National Exhibition of American Art Summer 1937
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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