Dance at the Moulin de la Galette
Il Canal Grande da campo S Vio -21-
View of Genoa
The Storm 7
art fairy
Flaming June
Nevada
Kimberly
The Martyrdom of St Matthew -detail- fg
In the Pergola
Undine
Still-Life with Fruits sg
Chisinau
Nancy Elmhurst Goods
Bertrand with the Sword of the Constable
GOLTZIUS, Hendrick
Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room -25
Hanamaulu
Waleska
Ploiesti
Portrait of Aime-Jules Dalou,his Wife an
creating creature dragon elf everyday fa
A Young girl seated at a plano,holding a
Ludwig Knaus
L-eglise de Marissel -11-
The Madonna of the Carnation -detail- dg
Richard Westall
The Dispatch
A Bachelor-s Drawer
Staunton
david farquharson,r.a.,a.r.s.a.,r.s.w
Psyche Served by Invisible Spirits fhh
The Merry Drinker -detail- af
Nana
The Sacrifice of Isaac
Flowering Meadow at Veierland -nn02
San Sebastiano
Art Museum of Southeast Texas
Balltown
View of the Gulf of Naples -05-
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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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