Haroutin "Ariel" Pascale Agemian (Armenian: Հարություն "Արիել" Ստեփանի Աճեմյան, 1904– November 28, 1963) was an Armenian-American artist who worked predominantly in Italy, France, and New York City in the United States.
In addition to those works, there are paintings in the Mekhitarist College in Venice, the Monastery on the Island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni and also several homes of friends in the United States.
They included Giovanni Martinelli, Akim Tamiroff's wife, Louis Martin, Minister of the French Navy, Pope Pius XI, and Cardinal Grégoire-Pierre Agagianian.
Critics proclaimed that “the artist reveals a diversifying talent with the ability to deal with formal organization; a nice color sense; and a generally romantic approach”[2] and that he was "obviously trained in European traditions of sound craftsmanship".
[3] Shortly after Ariel Agemian emigrated to America, he set up a studio in New York City where he taught art to now famous artists, Erik Schmidt and Richard Mantia while he continued to paint.
Frey who were directors of the Confraternity of the Precious Blood, a publishing house for Catholic literature in Brooklyn, New York.
[4] After coming to America, the artist's technique and subject matter noticeably changed to purely religious.
He was awarded a Gold Medal from Pope Pius XII and knighted into the Order of Saint Gregory the Great.
Some religious works have been donated to museums in New York City, Holy Cross Armenian Catholic Church in Belmont, Massachusetts; St. Mark's in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania; St. Bernard's Church in New Broomfield, Pennsylvania; Collegio Armeno in Rome;[6] and Yerevan, Armenia.
The majority of works done in America have been in the private collection of Annig Agemian Raley in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.