Samuel Salko (1888 - 1968) was active/lived in Pennsylvania and the Russian Federation. He is known as a painter and decorator.
Salko was born in Russia and studied in art schools there, but left as a young man arriving in Seattle by way of China. He worked in different trades there before he came to Philadelphia where he was naturalized as a US citizen. He won a scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and during WWII he worked as artist/illustrator at the Frankford Arsenal and received a certificate from the War Department for his praiseworthy contribution to the war effort.
Samuel Salko
Disciplines:
Visual Arts – painting
Disciplines:
Visual Arts – painting
Based in Pennsylvania
Residencies: 1950
Studios
Barnard
Samuel Salko worked in the Barnard studio.
Originally built near the Lower House (a building since demolished) at MacDowell's Union Street entrance, Barnard Studio was funded by Barnard College music students. It was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room…