Interior of a Tailor s Shop
The boat of Thames
Pedro Blanes
Portrait of Martin Luther
The Last Supper
Barthel Bruyn
Nasturtiums in The Dance -I- -35-
Dierks
Sailboat
Fra Angelico,Ordination of St Lawrence -
Sesser
The Fisherman s House at Varengeville
The Death of Cleopatra
bye bye blackbird
Camera degli Sposi
The Letter -nn01-
The Chocolate Pot
Riverbank,Petie Andely
The Bean King -detail- af
Sunday
Land of Promise
The Sabine Woman
Adelanto
Bacchus
Chestnut Tree in Blossom -nn04-
Recreation by our Gallery
Maffei, Francesco
Consequences of the steam-engine
Realistic Purple Rose
The Union of Earth and Water
art fine lighting
The View of the Plaster Cast Collection
Monforte Altarpiece -detail-
The Arcadian Shepherds -nn03-
Zelino
Details of The Three Stages of Life,with
Bonfield
Assumption of the Virgin,details with Ev
Retiring
St. Augustine
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Arshile Gorky:
Armenian
1904-1948
Arshile Gorky Gallery
Gorky was born in the village of Khorkom near Van, Turkey. It is not known exactly when he was born: it was sometime between 1902 and 1905. (In later years Gorky was vague about even the date of his birth, changing it from year to year.) In 1910 his father emigrated to America to avoid the draft, leaving his family behind in the town of Van. Gorky fled Van in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide and escaped with his mother and his three sisters into Russian-controlled territory. In the aftermath of the genocide, Gorky's mother died of starvation in Yerevan in 1919. Gorky was reunited with his father when he arrived in America in 1920, aged 16, but they never grew close. At age 31, Gorky married. He changed his name to Arshile Gorky, in the process reinventing his identity (he even told people he was a relative of the Russian writer Maxim Gorky).
In 1922, Gorky enrolled in the New School of Design in Boston, eventually becoming a part-time instructor. During the early 1920s he was influenced by impressionism, although later in the decade he produced works that were more postimpressionist. During this time he was living in New York and was influenced by Paul Cezanne. In 1927, Gorky met Ethel Kremer Schwabacher and developed a life lasting friendship. Schwabacher was his first biographer.
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