Mohammad Ali Taraghijah

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Mohammad Ali Taraghijah (1943–2010) was an Iranian painter best known for his rural and Iranian landscape scenes. Born in Tehran, he earned a mechanical engineering degree but chose to pursue art. He won the Golden Award at the Iran National Art Competition in 1968 and began painting full-time in 1970. In 1994, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art added some of his works to its collection and published them. In 1998, UNICEF selected two of his paintings for Christmas cards. His work has been shown internationally in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, France, the United States and Japan. He was married to Firoozeh Navabi and had two sons: Mohammad, an architect, and Ali, a painter.