Gallery of Mariam and Yeranuhi Aslamazyan Sisters
Gyumri gallery of the painter sisters Mariam and Yeranuhi Aslamazyan, in a listed nineteenth-century house.
Mariam Aslamazyan (1907-2006) and her younger sister Yeranuhi (1910-1998) were born in the Shirak village of Bash-Shirak and trained in Yerevan and Leningrad. Both painted in a bright, decorative manner drawing on Armenian folk art, and Mariam also worked extensively in glazed ceramic. In 1987 they gave their native region a large body of their work, and a gallery opened in their name in a black tuff merchant's house on Abovyan Street in Gyumri, a building protected as a monument.
The collection holds more than six hundred paintings, graphic works, sculptures and decorative ceramics by the two sisters, arranged across the rooms of the old house and covering still life, portraits, scenes of Armenian village life and the travels that took Mariam to India, Egypt and Japan. The building was pressed into service as emergency accommodation after the earthquake of 1988 before returning to gallery use. Art therapy sessions and classes for different age groups run alongside the displays.
Highlights
- More than 620 works given by the sisters to their native region
- Glazed ceramics and decorative panels by Mariam Aslamazyan
- Black tuff merchant's house listed as a cultural monument
- Paintings drawn from travels in India, Egypt and Japan
