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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:
Notable SiteArt Institute of Chicago

Notable SiteGuggenheim Museum, New York City

Notable SiteHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

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

Notable SiteMetropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Water of the Flowery Mill, 1944

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online

Notable SiteMuseum of Modern Art, New York City
10 works by Arshile Gorky online

Notable SiteArshile Gorky at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
10 works by Arshile Gorky

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Notable SitePeggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Untitled, 1944

Notable SitePeggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Untitled, 1944

Notable SiteSan 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

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Untitled, 1943-48

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

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)

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Composition, 1936-39

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

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Notable SiteWorld Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Artyzm

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

 
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"

 
Articles and Reference Sites:
Notable SiteEncyclopedia Britannica complete article on Arshile Gorky  
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Notable SiteGrove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Notable SiteUnion List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Notable SiteWikipedia, 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

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!  

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on 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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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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