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Gorky, Arshile
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From: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Date: 20040101
Author:IAN CHILVERS
Gorky, Arshile ( Vosdanig Manoog Adoian )
( b Dzov, 15 Apr. 1904; d Sherman, Conn., 21 July 1948). American painter, born in Turkish Armenia, who formed a link between European Surrealism and American Abstract Expressionism . He emigrated to the USA in 1920 and adopted the pseudonym Arshile Gorky, the first part of the name being derived from the Greek hero Achilles, the second part (Russian for ‘the bitter one’) from the Russian writer Maxim Gorky, to whom the painter sometimes claimed he was related (evidently not realizing that the writer's name, too, was a ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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