The following was submitted by the artist:

Raffi was born in the United States of Armenian parentage in 1928.  His father L. Yacoubian was an artist and illustrator born in Armenia and received his training in Paris.
 
Young Raffi grew up in San Francisco and at age eleven worked under Diego Rivera at the San Francisco World's Fair during school vacations in 1939 and 1940.  Two years later he studied art under Abel Warshawsky at his studio in Carmel.  He also s (showing 500 of 1303 characters).