Arshile Gorky Works Online
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Original works by Arshile Gorky available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Arshile Gorky at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Water of the Flowery Mill, 1944
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
13 works online when last checked
Arshile Gorky at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
10 works by Arshile Gorky
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Untitled, 1944
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Untitled, 1944
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Study for "The Plough and the Song", drawing
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
The Plough and the Song
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Untitled Drawing, graphite and colored crayon, 1943
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Garden in Sochi, 1940-41
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Arshile Gorky in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Untitled (Study for The Liver is the Cock's Comb)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Composition, 1936-39
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Study for "Agony", 1946-47
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Arshile Gorky online
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
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Seattle Art Museum
Arshile Gorky at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Waterfall, 1943
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Mannikin, 1931
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
University of Kentucky Art Museum
Woman with Necklace (Studio version), 1936
Art Market:
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Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
University of Michigan Fine Art Slides
In the Garden
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Legacy Project
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Arshile Gorky 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Art + Auction Magazine
Artist Dossier -- "Although his lyrical and often highly personal art is regarded as a bridge between Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, Gorky is more than just a transitional figure"
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
The Art Story
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on The Artist and His Mother, ca.1926
The London Evening Standard
"Arshile Gorky is mother's boy", 2010 article by Brian Sewell
The New York Observer
"Considering Gorky, It's His Portraits That Really Matter", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer
"Arshile Gorky Oeuvre: Despite Hommages, Works Were Diary", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker
"Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work", 2003 book review by Peter Schjeldahl
The Village Voice
"Art as Salvation", 2004 article by Jerry Saltz
Time Magazine
"The Triumph of Achilles the Bitter", 1981 article by Robert Hughes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work
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From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky
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Arshile Gorky: The Implications of Symbols
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Black Angel: The Life of Arshile Gorky
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