biografía de Grieg Hovsep CHAPIAN (1913-?)

Lugar de nacimiento: Varna, Bulgaria

Direcciones: Albuquerque, NM

Profesión: Painter, lecturer

Estudios: Cooper Union, 1930-1931; Nat Acad Design, 1931-1936, with Leon Kroll, Karl Anderson, Charles C Curran, Arthur S Covey, Francis Scott Bradford, Jr, Gifford Beal, Charles S Chapman & Ivan Olinsky.

Exposiciones: Allied Artists Am, New York, NY, 1936; Pa Acad Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1937; PAFA, 1938; First Nat Wartime Art Show, Camden, NJ, 1944; N Mex State Fair Art Exhib, Albuquerque, 1971; Grand Nat Exhib, Am Artists Prof League, New York, 1972; S.Indp.A.; Mesilla Gallery, Mesilla Park, NM, 1970s. Awards: Grand prize & first for oils, Local 1, CIO, 1944; first for oils & best of show for graphics, N Mex Art League, 1969.

Asociaciones: Am Artists Prof League; Southwest Watercolor Soc; Artists Equity Asn; Nat Art League.

Obra: Commissions: Two murals for Auto Racing Syndicate, Johannesburg, S Africa, 1939.

Comentarios: Preferred Media: Oils. Positions: Mem bd dir, N Mex Art League, 1969-1971. Teaching: Dir hist art & landscape, Murray Art Schs, Scranton & Wilkes-Barre, Pa, 1948-1950; dean & dir figure drawing & painting, Cooper Sch Art, Cleveland, 1950-1955; dean fashion illus & philos of art, Pan-Am Art Sch, New York, 1960-1966.

Fuentes: WW73; Flo Wilks, Magic realism in noted artist's work reflects his wide range of interests," Albuquerque J, June 14, 1970."