Arman Manookian

Arman Tateos Manookian (; May 15, 1904 – May 10, 1931), born as Tateos Manookian, He lived in Honolulu for the last years of his life.

Early life Arman Tateos Manookian was the oldest of three children born to an Armenian Christian family in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey). As a teenager, he survived the Armenian genocide. Manookian immigrated to the United States in 1920.

At the age of 16 he studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. Only thirty-one of his oil paintings are known to exist as of 2011.

Death and legacy He ended his life committing suicide on May 10, 1931, using poison at a party, because of his severe depression. His oil paintings are rare and highly valued based on their almost iconic status and scarcity due to his early death.

The Honolulu Academy of Arts (now Honolulu Museum of Art) held a memorial exhibition shortly after Manookian's death in August 1931.

Honolulu Museum of Art held a retrospective exhibition titled Meaning in Color/Expression in Line: Arman Manookian’s Modernism, from late 2010 through early 2011.

In July 2010, a group of seven paintings owned by the Hotel Hana-Maui were removed from public display, they were originally thought to be Manookian's painting but some of them may have been copies by artist Larry Mayo. Two of the murals, Red Sails and Hawaiian Boy and Girl, are now on long-term loan to the Honolulu Museum of Art.

From July 3, 2014, to January 11, 2015, a number of Manookian paintings were on display at the Honolulu Museum of Art including Red Sails, Hawaiian Boy and Girl, Breadfruit, Pele, and Weaver.