Muralist, painter. Born in Fresno, CA on Oct. 18, 1911.
Tolegian moved to Los Angeles at age nine and first studied art there at Manual Arts High School under Frederick Schwankovsky. He then continued at the ASL of NYC and with John Sloan, Thomas H. Benton, John S. Curry, and George Grosz.
He was a boyhood friend of writer Wm Soroyan for whom he wrote the folk music to his Pulitzer prize-winning play "Time of Your Life." Tolegian's book illustrations include Oma (showing 500 of 1241 characters). |
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