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Arshile Gorky


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Arshile Gorky

American, (1904–1948)
EDUCATION
Rhode Island School of Design, New School of Design in Boston, Grand Central School of Art
TAUGHT AT
Grand Central School of Art, New York School of Design
BIOGRAPHY

Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), baptized Vosdanig Adoian, was born in Turkish Armenia. In 1920 he arrived in the United States with a group of Armenian immigrants, and lived in Providence and Boston. While in Massachusetts he created a series of still-lifes and drawings that were influenced by Cezanne. In 1925 he legally changed his name and moved to New York City. He began studying at Grand Central School of Art and taught there until 1931. Between 1927 and 1932, he experimented with Cubism and was convinced that there was nothing better. In 1930 Gorky had his first museum showing at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1932 he became a member of the "Abstraction, Creation, Art Non-Figuratif" group in Paris. In 1934 Gorky had his first solo exhibition at Mellon Gallery in Philadelphia. The Whitney Museum was the first museum to purchase a Gorky painting (in 1937). He joined the WPA Federal Art Project in 1935 and began working on aviation murals for Newark Airport. He created a mural for the New York's World's Fair in 1939. In 1945 he showed his work at Julien Levy Gallery in New York and had annual exhibitions there until 1948. In 1946 twenty-seven of his paintings were destroyed by fire in his Connecticut studio, and he underwent an operation for cancer. In 1947 Gorky settled permanently in Sherman, Connecticut. In 1948 he was in an automobile accident that paralyzed his painting arm and broke his neck. Shortly thereafter, he committed suicide on his farm. His paintings are included in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum, the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, the National Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, among many others. [Source: unknown and currently being researched]



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