The Whitney may have goofed with its John Currin show, but it has a winner in "Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings," a huge spread of works by a crucial forerunner of abstract expressionism who ...
“Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings” Born in Turkish Armenia in 1904, Vosdanik Adoian would grow up to be Arshile Gorky, one of America’s most important and influential artists, but he would ...
The art of Arshile Gorky burns through the shadows of his life. The first retrospective survey of his work since 1981 is now on view through Jan. 10 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and features 180 ...
No matter how often we’re given an opportunity to revisit the paintings and drawings of Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), it’s still No matter how often we’re given an opportunity to revisit the paintings ...
Berenice Abbott, Broadway near Broome Street, 1935. From The New York Public Library. Courtesy The Arshile Gorky Foundation and Hauser & Wirth It’s 1924 in New York City. Thirty-four percent of the ...
Wall Street Journal: ‘Arshile Gorky. New York City’ Review: An Enigmatic Evolution
Arshile Gorky, “Garden in Sochi” (1941), oil on canvas, 44 1/4″ x 62 1/4″ (112.4 x 158.1 cm) (image courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, © 2014 Estate of ...
Shushan and Vostanig Adoian, Van, c. 1911, photographed by uncredited photographer (image courtesy Dr. Bruce Berberian and The Arshile Gorky Foundation) Around 1911, mother and son Shushan and ...
Arshile Gorky was called the last Surrealist and the first Abstract Expressionist, but his work belongs in neither category. A self-taught artist who studied and copied the Old Masters, he was a ...