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[[Image:A. T. Manookian, mural 'Hawaiian Boy and Girl'.jpg|thumb|right|300px|'Hawaiian Boy and Girl', mural by Arman Manookian]]
 
'''Arman Tateos Manookian''' (1904–1931) was an Armenian-American painter. He was the oldest of three children born to a Christian Armenian family in [[Constantinople]].<ref>Gard, 2011, p. 39</ref> As a teenager, he survived the [[Armenian Genocide]]. Manookian immigrated to the United States in 1920, at the age of 16, and studied illustration at the [[Rhode Island School of Design]]. He also took classes at the [[Art Students League of New York]] before enlisting in the [[United States Marine Corps]] in 1923. While serving in the [[United States Marine Corps|U. S. Marine Corps]] he was assigned as a clerk to the author and historian, Majorwho [[Edwinsaid nice things about him after Northhis McClellan]]suicide. In 1925, McClellan and Manookian werewas transferred to [[Pearl Harbor]].<ref>Papanikolas, 2010</ref> TheHe latterlater supplied illustrations for ''[[Leatherneck Magazine]]'' and produced about 75 ink drawings for McClellan’sthe history of the [[United States Marine Corps]], which was never published. These drawings are now in the collection of the [[Honolulu Academy of Arts]].
 
In 1927, Manookian was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps, but remained in Hawaii. He worked for the [[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]] and for ''[[Honolulu (magazine)|Paradise of the Pacific]]''.