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Arshile Gorky

[Armenian-born American Abstract Expressionist Painter, 1904-1948]

• Relationships: Gorky's students included Nan Greacen.
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Original works by Arshile Gorky available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
3 works by Arshile Gorky online

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Untitled, 1943-48

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Arshile Gorky at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Self-Portrait at the Age of Nine, 1928

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City
Water of the Flowery Mill, 1944

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Composition, 1936-39

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
10 works by Arshile Gorky online

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, Ontario

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Untitled, 1944

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Untitled, 1944

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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

Arshile Gorky in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Untitled (Study for The Liver is the Cock's Comb)

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Abstraction with Artist's Materials, 1934

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

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   NEW!
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University of Kentucky Art Museum
Woman with Necklace (Studio version), 1936

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
The Artist and His Mother, ca.1926-36

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
The Betrothal II, 1947

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Illustrated essay: Arshile Gorky and the Whitney Museum of American Art

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Pictures from Image Archives:
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

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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

 
Other Web Sites:
The Legacy Project
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Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Arshile Gorky
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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 & Antiques Magazine
"Gorky + Burkhardt"

artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings

Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
The Artist and His Mother, ca.1926

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Considering Gorky, It's His Portraits That Really Matter

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Arshile Gorky Oeuvre: Despite Hommages, Works Were Diary

Time Magazine
"The Triumph of Achilles the Bitter", 1981 article by Robert Hughes

  
 
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