The following is from the artist, August 2002:
Jirayr Hamparzoom Zorthian was born April 14, 1911 in Kutahya, Turkey, of Armenian parents. At the age of three, he showed considerable talent in painting and his drawings and paintings are on record from that time on.
He went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in hi (showing 500 of 18421 characters). |
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