Gorky's characteristic paintings of this final period include biomorphic forms in strong colours, shifting abstract elements and the energetic line that he developed in his drawings ...

Vostanig emigrated to Watertown MA in 1920 and moved to New York in 1924, where he began using the pseudonym “Arshile Gorky.” We’ll speculate about Gorky’s identity change reasoning while we examine ...

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When Painter Arshile Gorky died in 1948, the New York Times gave the story a mere 15 lines—and perhaps it would not have run even that much had it not believed, mistakenly, that the artist was ...

Arshile Gorky, Peggy Guggenheim, Jackson Pollock, and Alexander Calder (who lived just around the corner). “The people who come here and know a lot about art history, their eyes bug out of their ...

Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould investigate a murky canvas covered in white household paint that could potentially be a work of expressionist painter Arshile Gorky. Liza Dunluce came ...

Mean-while the cynical are attributing any lasting popularity to some ephemeral 'renaissance,' and the uncommitted are still content to 'wait and see.'..... The structure of Gorky's ...