Khoren Der Harootian was born in Ashodavan, Armenia, in 1909.Der Harootian came to the United States and had his first one-man show of paintings and sculpture at the Kraushaar Gallery, New York, in 1945. From then on, working in his New York Studio, he concentrated on sculpture in stone and marble. Since then, his work has been widely exhibited and acquired by museums and private collectors throughout the world, and he received several monumental commissions.