Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky
Արշիլ Գորկի
Arshile Gorky in December 1936
Born	Vostanik Manoug Adoian (1904-04-15)April 15, 1904 Khorgom, Vilayet of Van, Ottoman Empire (formerly Armenia)
Died	July 21, 1948(1948-07-21) (aged 44) Sherman, Connecticut, United States
Nationality	Armenian-American
Known for	Painting, drawing
Notable work	Landscape in the Manner of Cézanne (1927) Nighttime, Enigma, Nostalgia (1930–1934)
Movement	Abstract Expressionism

Arshile Gorky (/ˈɑːrʃiːl ˈɡɔːrki/ AR-sheel GOR-kee; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, Armenian: Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) 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.^[1] Along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Gorky has been hailed as one of the most powerful American painters of the 20th century. The suffering and loss he experienced in the Armenian genocide had crucial influence at Gorky's development as an artist.