Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (died 1948)

Arshile Gorky

Armenian-American painter (1904–1948)

Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent the last years of his life as a national of the United States. Along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Gorky has been hailed as one of the most…