Artist: Arshile Gorky (1904 - 1948)
Nationality: Armenian
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in Turkish Armenia ad Vosdanig Manoog Adoian, Arshille Gorky escaped the genocide in his country during World War I and settled in the United States at the age of 16. However, his mother was not as lucky and did not survive, her death impacting many of Gorky’s later works. He adopted the last name of Russian writer, Maxim Gorky and attended the Rhode Island School of Design. He originally painted in the style of Miro, Cézanne, and Picasso but later explored biomorphism and Surrealism. At the end of his career, Gorky had established a unique approach to his painting that placed his work in the Abstract Expressionist movement.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (19)
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Arshile Gorky Title: Composition Date: 1936 - 1939 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.30
Museum of Fine Arts -
© 2001 Estate of Arshile Gorky/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ; Arshile (Vosdanik
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Arshile Gorky - Agony 1947 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Arshile Gorky - Summation 1947 pencil, pastel, and The Museum of Modern Art American
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Arshile Gorky - Organization 1933-1936 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Arshile Gorky - Composition 1936-39 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Arshile Gorky - Golden Brown 1943-44 oil on cavnas Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum American
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Arshile Gorky - The Artist's Mother 1926 or 1936 charcoal on ivory la The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Arshile Gorky - The Artist and His Mother c.1926-c.1942 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Arshile Gorky - One Year the Milkweed 1944 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Arshile Gorky - Diary of a Seducer 1945 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Arshile Gorky - The Leaf of the Artichoke Is an Owl 1944 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Arshile Gorky - Garden in Sochi 1941 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Arshile Gorky - Soft Night 1947 oil, india ink, and Hirshhorn Museum American
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Arshile Gorky - Untitled (Study for "The Liver is the Cock's Comb") 1943 pencil and wax crayo Milwaukee Art Museum American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Savely Abramswitch Sorine, Maxim Gorky, 19th - 20th century
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Arshille Gorky - Untitled (Landscape) c. 1940 pencil, crayon Arkansas Arts Center American
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Arshille Gorky - Garden in Soci 1940-41 gouache on board High Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Woman, 1944 Willem de Kooning (American, born The Netherlands, 1904-1997)Oil and charcoal on canvas; H.

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (11)
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Montclair Art Museum: WILL BARNET: A TIMELESS WORLD
IMAGE:
Will Barnet
Old Mans Afternoon, 1947
Oil on canvas
47 x 36 in.
Private collection Works from the Permanent Collection of The Montclair Art Museum by ...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Twentieth-Century Works on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Cleveland Museum of Art: Last Chance! Twentieth-Century Works on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Jackson Pollock, Robert Frank, and the New American Vision: Drawings and Photographs from the Fo
In photography, Harry Callahan, Nathan Lyons, Aaron Siskind, and Minor White followed diverse paths in the pursuit of abstraction. ...
Diorama Gallery: Fables: Works by Anne-Lise Firth
The show is called Fables because the paintings are her own improvised stories, which cannot be put into words, but must instead be told large in oil on canvas. Anne-Lise received her BA in History of Art at the University of East Anglia and rece...
Phillips Collection: William Scharf: Paintings, 1984-2000
Scharf's work, which brings to mind the paintings of Arshile Gorky and Mark Rothko, for whom he served as a studio assistant, has been considered second generation abstract expressionist. His sources and references, howeve...
Museum of Modern Art: The Dream of Utopia/Utopia of the Dream
One extreme was defined by the pure abstractions of painters such as Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, who sought the systematic restructuring of reality through emphasis on the logic of form. For example, the spare black and white ...
National Academy: Surrealism USA: Between 1930 and 1950
One of the most revolutionary artistic and intellectual movements of the twentieth century, Surrealism still exerts a strong appeal today, more than fifty years after its heyday. The profound influence that this world of fantasy and dream had on a...
National Gallery of Art: Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure
"The Gallery presented in 1994 a major exhibition of de Kooning's paintings. Now, we are extremely pleased to be showing his drawings," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. "They reveal de Kooning grappling with issues that ...
Whitney Museum of American Art: Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2000
Curator Sylvia Wolf's selection focuses on artists who live and work in this country. Portraits, landscapes, street photographs, and genre subjects will be featured, including works by Vito Acconci, Diane Arbus, Matthew Barney, Dawoud Bey, Nancy B...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Passionate and Obstinate: The Lois Orswell Collection
Passionate and Obstinate (the phrase is Orswell’s self-description) will feature works from the Lois Orswell Collection as a cohesive group for the first time. Orswell was a distinctive collector whose methods were unlike those of her contemporari...

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