In 1920, a young Armenian painter named Vosdanig Manuk Adoian emigrated to the US, fleeing from the Armenian genocide. After four years living with relatives in Massachusetts, he moved to New York ...

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A young Armenian painter named Vosdanig Manuk Adoian emigrated to the US in 1920, fleeing from the Armenian genocide. After four years living with relatives in Massachusetts, he moved to New York and ...

Arshile Gorky’s artistic reinvention in New York during a city’s rise to cultural prominence. In a period that saw Manhattan host the premiere of George Gershwin’s musical composition ‘Rhapsody in ...

When Painter Arshile Gorky died in 1948, the New York Times gave the story a mere 15 lines—and perhaps it would not have run even that much had it not believed, mistakenly, that the artist was “a ...

The Thread of Colour, a major show, and celebration of the life and work of Armenian-American artist Maro Gorky (b. New York 1943) will open at Saatchi Gallery, London on 28 March and runs until 13 ...

22.86 x 40.64 cm. (9 x 16 in.) New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and San Francisco Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition, January - July 1951, no. 57, ...

Arshile Gorky was called the last Surrealist and the first Abstract Expressionist, but his work belongs in neither category. A self-taught artist who studied and copied the Old Masters, he was a ...

Toward the end of 1924, a very young man—about 20 years old—arrived in New York. Born in Armenia as Vosdanig Manouk Adoian, he survived the genocide along with his sister, but they watched their ...

Hauser & Wirth to celebrate the centenary of Gorky’s arrival in New York City with a special presentation at its space on Wooster Street, mere blocks from the artist’s original West Village address.