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 Pinajian was an Abstract
Expressionist landscape and figurative painter who
stands as the quintessential example of the
forgotten American artist who was highly gifted yet
was completely unknown in his lifetime. It was not
until March of 2007, when the
New York Times featured a story titled,
“Closing on a House, and a Life’s Story, Told in
Art.” Fortunately for American art history, the
buyer of the Pinajian cottage in Bellport, Long
Island, also became dedicated to preserving the
cottage’s large art collection of abstract paintings
that had been destined for the Dumpster
The first art historian
on the scene was
William I. Homer, Professor
Emeritus and former Chair at the University of
Delaware. (The University is internationally
recognized as having one of the country’s most
prestigious graduate programs in American Art
History.) Homer was stunned by what he found, and
united with me to form a team of art historians to
conduct research into the life and art of this
extraordinary artist. The result is
Pinajian:
Master of Abstraction Discovered, to be
published concurrently with a traveling exhibition
that will open at the Woodstock Art Museum (July–Oct
2010); then travel to the Armenian Museum in Boston
(Dec. 2010–April 2011).
—
Peter Hastings
Falk
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