Skunder Boghossian

Alexander "Skunder" Boghossian (; ; July 22, 1937 – May 4, 2003) was an Ethiopian painter and professor active in the United States. Boghossian was one of the first, and by far the most acclaimed, contemporary Black artists from the African continent to gain international attention. Boghossian's mother, Tsedale-Wolde Tekle (Also cited as Weyzero Tsedale-Wolde Tekle.) Boghossian had a sister and a half brother. He also studied under Stanislaw Chojnacki, a historian of Ethiopian art and watercolor painter. The following year Boghossian settled in London and studied at Saint Martin's School of Art, Central School of Art and Design, and Slade School of Fine Art under an Imperial scholarship.

In 1977, he became the first African to design a First Day Cover for a United Nations stamp. He was commissioned by the World Federation of United Nations Associations. The work is an aluminum relief sculpture (365 x 1585 cm) mounted on the granite wall of the embassy.

Awards Haile Selassie First Prize for Fine Arts, 1967. Contemporary African Painters, First Prize, Munich, Germany, 1967. Axum 1967 The End of the Beginning 1973 National Museum of African Art in Washington D.C.