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Edmund Yaghjian: A Retrospective

October 20, 2007- December 8, 2007

Reception: October 20, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Edmund Yaghjian

ACA Galleries

529 W 20th St

ACA Galleries is delighted to announce its first exhibition of works by Edmund Yaghjian. This show is part of a traveling exhibition organized by the South Carolina State Museum. A full color catalogue is available with essays by Sharon Campbell, Paul Matheny and Robin Waites.

At the age of 3, Edmund Yaghjian immigrated with his family from Harpoot, Armenia to Providence, RI. He moved to New York City in 1930 and attended the Art Students League where he became close friends with John Sloan and Stuart Davis.

In 1945 he became the first head of the art department at the University of South Carolina. He was instrumental in bringing a level of professionalism to the department and encouraging the development of the arts in the community and across the region.

Throughout his career he painted his surroundings. But his style continually shifted from realism to stylized abstraction to nonobjective work. This exhibition will include representative work from his long career.

Selected Collections:

Columbia Museum of Art, SC; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Greenville County Museum, SC; High Museum, Atlanta, GA; Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; The New York Public Library, NY; New York University, NY; Ossining Historical Museum, NY; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC; West Point Museum, NY, among others.

Selected Museum Exhibitions:

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (1934, 1949); Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, PA (1936, 1945); New York World’s Fair (1939); Montclair Art Museum, NJ (1941); Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (1941); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY(1942, 1953); National Academy of Design (1946), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1948); Toledo Museum of Art, OH (1948); High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (1950, 1953, 1954); Columbia Museum of Art, SC (1951, 1953, 1959, 1961); Birmingham Museum of Art, AL (1954); The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (1954, 1958); Yaghjian 1945-1960, Gibbes Art Gallery, Carolina Art Association, Charleston, SC (1960); Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC (1965); Edmund Yaghjian Retrospective, 1932-1972 Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, (1972); Modern Life…As Usual, South Carolina Arts Commission (1987); State Art Collection Retrospective, State Museum of South Carolina (1988); Edmund Yaghjian: A Retrospective, State Museum of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (2007).

*This show is part of a traveling exhibition organized by the South Carolina State Museum. Catalogue available.

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