Arthur Pinajian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
American, 1914-1999
Arthur Pinajian (1914-1999)
Rarely do we discover a worthy artist who works alone and unheralded. Arthur Pinajian was one of them. He drew and painted in obscurity until his death in 1999 at the age of 85.
The majority of his work was found after his death stacked up in the one-car garage and attic of his sister’s property.
Pinajian, was a native of Union City, New Jersey. He started as a cartoonist in the 1930s and found considerable success fashioning comic strips for Quality, Marvel, and Centaur Comics.
After World War II, during which he earned the Bronze Star for valor, he rejected commercial art, attended the Art Students League in New York, and committed himself to the pursuit of serious painting. Prior to his many years in Bellport with Armen, he rented a studio in Woodstock, New York, and there and in West New York, New Jersey, he began to wrestle with the challenges of being a modern artist.
This meant painting in a variety of styles ranging from the figurative to the abstract. The word exploration sums up the nature of his quest: he worked in the manner of Impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Cubism before turning to Surrealism and various modes of abstraction, including Abstract Expressionism. Part of Pinajian’s learning process was to echo the styles of well-known artists — making free copies as a means of perfecting his visual vocabulary. In the end, however, he forged his own style without a heavy debt to others. He also philosophized about the creative process. Found among his effects were numerous journals in which he wrote down his ideas about the making of art. Issues of color, composition, and pattern captured much of his attention. It is noteworthy that he became a veritable
It is noteworthy that he became a veritable master of structural color.
What is so remarkable about Pinajian is his wholehearted dedication to the process of painting. He pursued his goals in isolation with the single-minded focus of a Gauguin or Cezanne, refusing to give up in the face of public indifference. In his later years he could be compared to a researcher in a laboratory pursuing knowledge for its own sake.
- Pinajian’s work is uneven, but when he hits the mark, especially in his abstractions, he can be ranked among the best artists of his era. It is satisfying to contemplate his more successful works, doubly so because they capture the excitement of visual modernism and exude a painterly integrity that is rare in our time. - Professor, William Innes Homer
New York Times, WSJ.com, London Daily Mail, ABC’s 20/20, Good Moring America, which in 2013 heralded Pinajian as “the unlikely discovery that has rocked the art world”.
Stephanie's Art Gallery representing the Pinajian Estate Collection since its discovery. to
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Artist: Arthur Pinajian
Black and White
By Arthur Pinajian
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The artist Pinajian signed lower right with ink. it is ink on paper.
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Arthur Pinajian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Image it is pink, abstract watercolors
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The color harmony on paper. stamp singed lower right Pinajian. Archived numbered 1580
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Arthur Pinajian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Center of power, yellow and green
By Arthur Pinajian
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The gallery certificate is available, stamp signed lower right Pinajian.
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Arthur Pinajian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Untitled , Abstract.
By Arthur Pinajian
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Artist Pinajian signed and dated lower left. The gallery certificate is available.
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Arthur Pinajian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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