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Dear Dorothy, my biography is very short [asked for by the MOMA].. ..I was born in Tiflis, Caucacus, South Russia, October 25th, 1904 and after the u… - Arshile Gorky
" "Dear Dorothy, my biography is very short [asked for by the MOMA].. ..I was born in Tiflis, Caucacus, South Russia, October 25th, 1904 and after the usual studies I came to America in 1920. I had been painting steadily since I was seven and continued to do so during my three and a half years at Brown University where I studied engineering. In 1925 I came to New York and taught at the Grand Central Art School for seven years. I have been living and working ever since in New York.
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About Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky (15 April 1904 – 21 July 1948), born Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, was an American abstract expressionist painter of Armenian descent, living and working in New York, where he got later strongly involved with American Surrealism. He was a very close friend of Willem de Kooning who respected him as a teacher in painting.
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Native Name:
Արշիլ Գորկի
Alternative Names:
Ostanik-Manuk Adoian
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Arshil Gorʹkiĭ
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Arshile Gorky Adoian
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Arshil Gorky
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Osdanig-Manug Atoyan
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Arshil Gorki Adoyan
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Wostanig Adoyan
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Vosdanig Manoog Adoian
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Ostanik-Manuk Adoyan
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Arshil Gorki
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Ostanik-Manuk Adoyean
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Osdanig-Manug Atoian
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Vostanik-Manuk Adoian
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Arschille Gorky
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Vosdanik Adoian
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Arshele Gorky
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Vosdanig Adoian
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Archele Gorky
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Archel Gorky
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Archele Gorki
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Arshile Gorkij
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Adoian Gorky
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a. gorky
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