A biographical portrait of one of the pioneers of American abstract art. Includes forty-five illustrations, four in color.
Arriving in America in 1920, Adoian invented the pseudonym Arshile Gorky-and obliterated his past.
The author of Frida chronicles the heroic and poignant tale of the great painter who seemed beset by one personal tragedy after another, from his family's escape from the Armenian massacre of 1915 to his 1948 suicide. Reprint.
"Arshile Gorkly was an unabashedly ambitious artist, 'apprenticing' himself to a series of masters - most notably Cézanne and Picasso - in order to become, at last, the master of...
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) is recognized as one of the most crucial and intriguing figures in the early shaping of Abstract Expressionism. Gorky pioneered a complex vocabulary of forms by fusing...
“ The Place of the Newark Murals in Gorky's Art . ” In Bowman , Murals Without Walls , 27–64 . Jordan , Jim , and Robert Goldwater . The Paintings of Arshile Gorky : A Critical Catalogue . New York : New York University Press , 1982 .
Arshile Gorky: The Early Years
Once, Matta s dealer, the prestigious Pierre Matisse, telephoned and asked to see them. ... Both Breton and Rosenberg were old enough to remember the time when it had been fashionable in Paris to dismiss Lautrec as a ...
Guild Art Gallery, 'Abstract Drawings by Arshile Gorky: 16 December 1935–5 January 1959', New York. Johnson, Malcom, 'Café Life in ... Kiesler, Frederick T., 'Murals Without Walls: Relating to Gorky's Newark Project', Art Front, 2, No.
Born on the shores of Armenia's Lake Van, Arshile Gorky immigrated to the United States in 1920 and went on to become one of the greatest American painters of the...
The show will be comprised of 17 paintings and 23 works on paper from this very influential period in Gorky's brief but potent career. It covers a decade where Gorky's...