The Garikow Project Moves Forward

Happy New Year 1009 - It's been a year since joining forces with Martin and about six months since Arnold came onto the scene. This year's focus for me will not be to help market Garikow's art collection but to write a book proposal and have a publisher pick it up.

Writing the definitive biography for Ivan Garikow is an extremely exciting and wonderful opportunity for me. The non fiction book will be used as a promotional device for us to further our mission and get us one step closer to informing the art world of Garikow's paintings.

Public recognition for Ivan Garikow is our ultimate goal in order to position ourselves in a way that should the right investors come along a permanent exhibition of Ivan's paintings will be realized.

During the first two weeks of January, I have been able to get Ask/ART.com to include Ivan Garikow in their Art index. This is a big step for Garikow as their site has more than 70,000 hits daily. A photo of Ivan and his Saltzburg Lady are there plus a short biography of Garikow.

Click on this link: http://www.askart.com/AskART/index.aspx
Then type: GARIKOW in the top right box.

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The Garikow Project - November 08 Update

Busy time this time of the year for me. After summer vacation, I have to put on the Professor cap as I start another academic year as an Adjunct Professor of Communications at York College, York, PA. From Mid August until approximately the middle of October is the time it takes me to shift gears and get in the teacher mode.

In busy times regular blogging takes a back seat.

After a meeting that took place in Dallastown, PA with Martin, Lana (Ivan's ex-sister in-law and only know person who had known Ivan on a personal level), her husband Charles and my wife Barbara in attendance, The Garikow Project has been relatively calm afterward.

Having interviewed Lana three times since the beginning of the year, it was nice to cordinate a meeting with Lana and Martin the owner of The Garikow Collection.

As the holiday season is upon us. I will be thinking ahead to 2009 and what our action plan should entail. Martin is unavailable at the present time and I am working on my marketing plan primarily.

Here is a picture of Lana and Martin, the Curator viewibng Garikows painting of "The Three Sisters" which Lana owns privately.

Please visit our online Art Gallery at: www.garikow.com.

Here is a 10 minute promo video about Ivan. Please watch: http://photoshow.comcast.net/watch/Cg9Wb4fY

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Journaling The Garikow Project

September 14, 2008

There has been sizable growth in the momentum of this project from the start which was initiated during the early days of January 2008.

So much has happened in such a short period of time. In short, The Eurisko Art Foundation headed by Martin McDermott, the Curator, has partnered with Arnold Garikow, Ivan's son, and yours truly in a five year mission to promote the art of Russian Painter Ivan Garikow.

Our mission is to promote Ivan Garikow, the man, his art, and his culture. Finding a permanant home for his paintings and securing his rightful place among the greatest artists of the Modern Age is the Foundation's long term goal.

In the first six months since I have been involved, the Ivan Garikow website has been restyled and revised. Continuing research regarding the man's life in Russia, Austria, and Philadelphia has become the central focus.

It is time for the art world to welcome a master painter who had been thought to be lost and gone forever. Through our efforts we hope that the Garikow legacy will be securely established and people all over the world will be able to enjoy the art work of Ivan.

The painting shown here is perhaps Garikow's best known work. "The Saltzburg Lady" painted in 1949 has become one of his most recognized paintings.

Please visit www.garikow.com to learn more about the Life of Ivan Garikow...

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