A church interior with the mass of saint
1510 Museo del Prado, Madrid
Drawbridge at Arles
Crossing of the Rhine by the Army of Lou
Watering Place on Rubinber -34-
Cloud study,horizon of trees 27 Septembe
Portrait of the Artist g
cezanne life still
VASARI, Giorgio
Tanaquil, Wife of Lucomo
Negotiator the Bay Horse in a Landscape
Lady with a bird-organ
Ferdinand Guillemardet French Ambassador
Disputation over the Trinity
Helene Louise Elizabeth de Mecklembourg
A Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman
Yellow City -12-
equine reproduction
Self-Portrait with Small Monkey
Duel After a Masked Ball
Still-Life with Drinking-Horn
The Madonna of the Fish
Prudence and Justice with Six Antique Wi
effigy mound
Coca-Cola Calendar Illustration
sketching
Towaoc
Snead
Daltongardens
NEER, Aert van der
Gaspard Dughet
Le Dejeuner sur i herbe
Moosup
Swiss Village
Campus
Moon
The Descent from the Cross -33-
Whear Field with Cornflowers -nn04-
Bacchanalia
Recreation by our Gallery
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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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