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Ernest Chiriaka (born Anastassios Kyriakakos on May 11, 1913, in New York City; died April 27, 2010, in Great Neck, New York) was an American commercial illustrator, pulp novel artist, and Western landscape painter.
Early Life and Training
• Birth: Born in New York City to Greek immigrant parents from the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
• Early Talent: Known as a teenager on Third Avenue for his natural drawing skills, often drawing with charcoal or sheet rock.
• Education: Trained at the Mechanics Institute, the Art Students League, the National Academy of Design, and the Grand Central School of Art under Harvey Dunn (a protégé of Howard Pyle).
Artistic Career
• Early Work: Painted movie and theater posters for the Associated Display Company in New York City in the early 1930s.
• Pulp Magazines: Created numerous pulp magazine covers during the 1930s and 1940s—primarily featuring Western and adventure themes—under pseudonyms like Acka, Darcy, and A.D..
• Slick Magazines & Pin-ups: Joined the American Artists Agency in 1950, painting for mainstream publications like The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, American Weekly, and producing distinctive pin-up art for Esquire starting in 1952.
• Paperbacks & Western Art: Designed paperback book covers through 1965, after which he shifted his focus to painting fine art landscapes of the American Old West.
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