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Ernest Chiriaka
Ernest Chiriaka
United States
Art Brokerage: Ernest Chiriaka American Artist: b. 1913-2010. Born in 1913, Chiriaka got a job painting movie and theater posters for the Associated Display Company in New York City in the early 1930s, even though he had no formal art training. Realizing he had much to learn, he enrolled in the Art Students League and then moved on to study at the Grand Central School under Harvey Dunn, his greatest influence. In the late 1930s, he worked for the pulps, doing front-cover paintings mainly of Western subjects. Among the "slicks" that employed him were The Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan. During the 1940s and early 1950s, he created front-cover paintings for American Weekly, the Sunday-magazine supplement of the Hearst newspapers. Chiriaka's first pin-ups were for Esquire in 1952. Working in gouache, he produced works that had very distinctive skin tones, especially in their printed form. Chiriaka contributed pin-ups to the 1953 Brown & Bigelow Ballyhoo calendar and later did three additional pin-ups that the firm published as separate calendars. He also traveled often to Hollywood to paint film stars. In the late 1930s, Chiriaka had devised wonderful front covers for Western pulp magazines. He later went on to create front-cover Western subjects for the paperback book market, working mostly with Pocket Books and Cardinal Editions. When his career in commercial illustration ended, Chiriaka brought his love of the Old West to the field of fine art. His distinctive style, influenced by Impressionism, established him as one of the greats in the field of contemporary Western painting. Listings wanted.
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Original Painting: Oil on Canvas, Hand Signed
16x20 in | 41x51 cm
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Limited Edition Print: Serigraph on Paper, Hand Signed, From the Edition of 40
Size: 20x16 in | 51x41 cm
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Limited Edition Print: Serigraph on Museum Board  , Hand Signed, From the AP edition of 20
Size: 28x22 in | 71x56 cm
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Size: 24x36 in | 61x91 cm
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Size: 55x26 in | 140x66 cm
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Size: 18x25 in | 46x62 cm
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Size: 21x26 in | 53x66 cm
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Size: 28x24x4 in | 71x61x9 cm
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Limited Edition Print: Screenprint on White Wove Paper, Not Signed, Unnumbered edition of 3000
Size: 29x29 in | 73x73 cm
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Size: 28x20 in | 70x50 cm
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Original Painting: Oil on Panel, Hand Signed, Original Painting
Size: 30x40 in | 76x102 cm
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Size: 31x39 in | 79x99 cm
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Size: 18x25 in | 46x64 cm
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Size: 36x34 in | 91x86 cm
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Size: 34x36 in | 86x91 cm
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