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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
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
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
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
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
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
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:
World 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
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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 & 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
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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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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