Arshile Gorky

1904–1948 · United States · Abstract Expressionism

Arshile Gorky (April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter. At first influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Gorky's later work presaged and exerted a seminal influence on abstract expressionism. Wikipedia

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“The Liver Is the Cock's Comb”, 1944 — Buffalo AKG Art Museum
“Enigmatic Combat”, 1936 — San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
“The Artist and His Mother”, 1931 — Whitney Museum of American Art
“The Plough and the Song”, 1946 — Art Institute of Chicago
“Diary of a Seducer”, 1945 — Museum of Modern Art
“Agony”, 1947 — Museum of Modern Art
“Composition: Horse and Figures”, 1928 — Museum of Modern Art
“Self-Portrait”, 1927 — Art Institute of Chicago
“After Xhorkum”, 1941 — Art Institute of Chicago
“Abstraction with a Palette”, 1930s — Philadelphia Museum of Art
“Last Painting (The Black Monk)”, 1948 — Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
“Good Hope Road II. Pastoral”, 1945 — Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
“Virginia Landscape”, 1944 — National Gallery of Art
“The Antique Cast”, 1926 — San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
“How My Mother's Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life”, 1944 — Seattle Art Museum
“Golden Brown Painting”, 1943 — Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
“Blue Figure in a Chair”, 1931
“Central Park at Dusk”, 1939
“Column with Objects”, 1931
“Column with Objects (3)”, 1931
“Composition I”, 1943
“Quartet”, 1932 — Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian
“Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln”, 1944
“Abstraction”, 1937
“Anatomical Blackboard”, 1943
“Composition II”, 1943
“Composition with Head”, 1936
“Composition II”, 1946 — Baltimore Museum of Art
“Apple Orchard”, 1943
“Still-life”, 1928
“The Garden in Sochi”, 1941
“The Garden in Sochi”, 1943
“Water of the Flowery Mill”, 1944
“Summation”, 1947
“One Year the Milkweed”, 1944
“Waterfall”, 1943
“The Betrothal II”, 1947
“Soft Night”, 1947

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