A young Armenian painter named Vosdanig Manuk Adoian emigrated to the US in 1920, fleeing from the Armenian genocide. After ...

The preternaturally talented Adoian, who taught drawing classes in Boston after minimal study himself, began teaching in New York, now having renamed himself Arshile (a version of the hero ...

When the Arshile Gorky Foundation sent a work by the early Abstract Expressionist out for routine conservation, they got more than they bargained for: The single work came back as two after ...

The Blanton Museum of Art’s latest exhibition, In Creative Harmony: Three Artistic Partnerships, challenges the idea of the lone artistic genius, emphasizing that great innovation is rarely formed in ...

Artist and His Mother, by Arshile Gorky [Photo/Artron.net] This painting, from US artist Arshile Gorky, portrays a photo of him and his mother. The original photo was sent to his father living in ...

Arshile Gorky was called the last Surrealist and the first Abstract Expressionist, but his work belongs in neither category. A self-taught artist who studied and copied the Old Masters ...

1911, photographed by uncredited photographer (image courtesy Dr. Bruce Berberian and The Arshile Gorky Foundation) Around 1911, mother and son Shushan and Vostanig Adoian visited a local ...

It wasn’t any old barn—the building was being used as a studio by Arshile Gorky, the late Armenian-American artist renowned for his contributions to Abstract Expressionism. Alongside his books ...

Egoyan juxtaposes homevideo images of his son Arshile with a selfportrait of the famed Armenian artist Arshile Gorky Egoyan narrates in English while his wife narrates in Armenian The selfportrait ...