Arthur 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 Timesfeatured a story titled,”Closing on a House, and a Life’s Story, Told in Art”.

Fortunately for American art history, the buyer of his cottage in Bellport, Long Island, also became dedicated to preserving the cottage’s large art collection of abstract art and his paintings that had been destined for the dumpster.

Artist Details

• Arthur Pinajian: A Great American Painter
• Date: 1914-1999
• Category: Abstract, Impressionism