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Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-American painter. At first influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Gorky's later work presaged and exerted a seminal influence on abstract expressionism. Along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning, Gorky has been hailed as one of the most powerful American painters of the 20th century. Gorky's experience as a survivor of the Armenian ge…
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culture · Armenian-American painter (1904–1948) · painter · designer · architectural drafter · sculptor · also Arshile Gorky, Ostanik-Manuk Adoian, Arshil Gorʹkiĭ, Arshile Gorky Adoian, Arshil Gorky, Osdanig-Manug Atoyan
Born 15 April 1904 · Died 21 July 1948 · Q165648
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2026· 3 entries
“You and I are different kinds of artist.”
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MutualArt.com: Arshile Gorky
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2025· 2 entries
Observer: Arshile Gorky’s New York in Images and Memory
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The Art Newspaper: Arshile Gorky’s experience as an immigrant to the US and the painting that defined it
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2021· 2 entries
Artnet: During Routine Maintenance, Conservators Discovered an Unknown Arshile Gorky Painting Hidden Behind a Work on Paper
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During routine maintenance of "The Limit", a hidden painting was discovered underneath; both paintings were exhibited and included in the latest catalogue of his work
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2020· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: The Fascinating Story Behind a Missing Portrait by Arshile Gorky
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2017· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Arshile Gorky’s Heretical Abstractions
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2016· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: A Flower Arrangement Inspired by Arshile Gorky
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2015· 2 entries
THE WEEK: Exhibit of the week: Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
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A fountain monument commemorating Gorky was erected in Edremit, Turkey, near his birthplace
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2010· 2 entries
Los Angeles Times: Art review: ‘Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective’ @ MOCA
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An exhibition of the same name opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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2009· 1 entry
NJ.com: Arshile Gorky: A Retospective, an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, captures the story of the artist with 180 pieces of his works on display
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2003· 1 entry
Observer: Arshile Gorky Oeuvre: Despite Hommages, Works Were Diary
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1948· 4 entries
Died 1948-07-21.
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After telling a neighbor and one of his students that he planned to commit suicide, Gorky was found hanged in his studio
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Gorky's neck was broken and his painting arm temporarily paralyzed in a car accident, and his wife left him, taking their children with her
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In 1948, Gorky's neck was broken and his painting arm temporarily paralyzed in a car accident, and his wife left him, taking their children with her.
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1944· 1 entry
Shows his emergence in the 1940s from the influence of Cézanne and Picasso into his own style, and is perhaps his greatest work
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1941· 1 entry
Gorky met and married Agnes Ethel Magruder (1921–2013), daughter of Admiral John Holmes Magruder, Jr
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1935· 2 entries
Gorky signed a three-year contract with the Guild Art Gallery (37 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York)
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Gorky became one of the first artists employed by the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project
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1932· 1 entry
“now naturally I am with Picasso”
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1931· 1 entry
Gorky sent a group of works ranging in price from $100 to $450 to the Downtown Gallery in New York
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1927· 1 entry
Gorky met Ethel Schwabacher, with whom he developed a lifelong friendship
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1925· 1 entry
Was asked by Edmund Greacen of the Grand Central Art Galleries to teach at the Grand Central School of Art; Gorky accepted and remained with them until 1931
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1923· 1 entry
Gorky enrolled in the recently founded New England School of Art in Boston, eventually becoming a part-time instructor
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1920· 1 entry
At the age of 16, Gorky was reunited with his father, but they never grew close
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1915· 1 entry
Gorky fled Van amidst the Armenian genocide and escaped with his mother and three sisters into Russian-controlled territory
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1908· 1 entry
His father emigrated to the United States to avoid the draft, leaving his family behind in the town of Van
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1904· 1 entry
Born 1904-04-15.
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