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Artist

Arshile Gorky (Primary)

Title

Time Is Running Out

Date

1936

Century

20th century

Medium & Support

Poster paint on paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 15 1/4 x 10 7/8 in. , Frame: 22 1/2 x 18 in. , Image: 13 1/4 x 9 7/8 in.

Style

Abstract Expressionism

Object Type

Paintings

Credit Line

Extended loan from the collection of Theodore C. Horowitz

Accession Number

EL1993.01.18.23

Copyright

In Copyright
© The Arshile Gorky Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

An Armenian refugee, Gorky, whose birth name was Vosdanik Adoian, fled Turkey and later, after losing his mother to starvation, immigrated to the United States in 1920. He settled in New York City in 1924, where he received art training and frequented New York City’s museums, voraciously studying the work of European modernists Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, and Joan Miró. The anxietyridden Time Is Running Out shows the influence of these artists in the fractured facial forms of eyes, nose, and mouth, and aggressively bold primary colors. Bridging the influences of Surrealism and Cubism and anticipating the gestural style of Abstract Expressionism, Gorky’s painting captures the tense interwar period and the lasting influence of his calamitous childhood.

Exhibition Title: Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection
Label Date: 2021
Type: Catalogue Entry
Written by: Hilary Schroeder

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