Arshile Gorky
c.1904–1948
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Arshile Gorky (; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, Armenian: Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter, who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent most his life as a national of the United States. 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. As such, his works were often speculated to have been informed by the suffering and loss he experienced in the Armenian Genocide.
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Arshile Gorky: Artist and His Mother
Arshile Gorky The Artist and His Mother 1926-36 © Estate of Arshile Gorky, courtesy ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2010
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