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Arshile Gorky
Armenian-American painter (1904–1948)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 15 April 1904
- Died
- 21 July 1948
- Place of death
- Sherman
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Gorky
- Spouse
- Marny George, Agnes Magruder
- Child
- Maro Gorky, Natasha Gorky
- Movement
- abstract expressionism, action painting, modern art
- Field of work
- painting
- Occupation
- painter, designer, architectural drafter, sculptor
- Citizenship
- Ottoman Empire, United States, First Republic of Armenia
- artist files at
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Library and Archives, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, Frick Art Research Library, College for Creative Studies Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- birth name
- Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան
- cause of death
- hanging to death
- copyright representative
- reproduction right not represented by CISAC member, reproduction right represented by CISAC-member, Estate of Arshile Gorky, Artists Rights Society, reproduction right not represented by CISAC member
- described by source
- Who is Who: Armenians, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3
- ethnic group
- Armenians
- has works in the collection
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Tate, National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Canada, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Israel Museum, Dallas Museum of Art
- manner of death
- suicide
- member of
- The 8th Street Club
- name in native language
- Arshile Gorky, Արշիլ Գորկի
- participant in
- Documenta II, Documenta III
- represented by
- Hauser & Wirth, Artists Rights Society
- work location
- Roxbury, Sherman, Boston, New York City
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