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Arshile Gorky Biography
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1905 |
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Born Vosdanig Manoog Adoian in Khorkom, Vari Haiyotz, Dzor, in the Armenian region of Turkey
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1921 - 1922 |
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Studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
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1923 - 1924 |
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Studied at the New School of Design, Boston
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1925 |
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Studied at the Grand Central School of Art, New York, NY
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1930 |
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Adopted teh name Arshile Gorky
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1930 |
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Became a naturlized United States citizen
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1948 |
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Died in Sherman, Connecticut, USA
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1948 |
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Was in a automobile accident that paralyzed his painting arm
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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1945-1949: Repartir a zero, comme si la peinture n'avait jamais existe, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France
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2008
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Peggy Guggenheim e la Nouva Pittura Americana, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
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2008
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Action Painting, Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
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2008
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Die Hande der Kunst, MARTa Herford, Herford
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2007
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Arshile Gorky: Homage, Centre Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris
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2007
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"Picasso and American Art," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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2006
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"Société Anonyme: Modernism in America," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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2005
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"Exil und Moderne," Kunsthalle St. Annen Lübeck, Lübeck
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2005
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"Surrealism USA," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
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2005
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"Dream On: Surrealism and Beyond from the Phoenix Art Museum Collection," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
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2005
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"Informalismo y Expresionismo abstracto en las colecciones Guggenheim," Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao
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2005
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"Into The Unknown: Abstraction From The Collection," MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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2005
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"Out of Site: Selections from the Marsha S. Glazer Collection," Art Museum at U.C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
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2005
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"After Cézanne," MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA; MOCA THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY, Los Angeles, CA
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2004
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"Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
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2004
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"Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings," The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
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2004
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"Das MoMA in Berlin. Meisterwerke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York." Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
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2003
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"Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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2003
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"Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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2003
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"El Expresionismo Abstracto Americano en las Colecciones Españolas," Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia
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2003
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"The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings & Sculptures," MFAH: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
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2003
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"International Abstraction: Making Painting Real," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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2003
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"Arshile Gorky," Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
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2002
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"Arshile Gorky," Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
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2002
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"Think Small: Little Treasures from the Permanent Collection," Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
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2002
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"Arshile Gorky: Portraits," Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
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2002
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"Surrealism: Desire Unbound," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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2002
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"The Tiger’s Eye: The Art of a Magazine," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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2001
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"The Kindness of Friends: A Selection of Gifts of Drawings and Prints, 1919–2000" Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
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2001
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"Collecting the Vanguard: Art from 1900-1970," The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
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2000
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"Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection," The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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1999
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"De Durero a Rauschenberg: La quintaesencia del dibujo," Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao
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1999
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"Linhas de Sombra," Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
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1998
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"Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, 1929-1942," Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
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1998
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"The New York School," Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
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1998
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"Defining the Edge: Early American Abstraction-Selections," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
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1998
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"Hannah Höch, Mit Pinsel, Feder und Schere," Galerie Remmert und Barth, Duesseldorf
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1996
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Arshile Gorky, Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Pedrigao, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
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1994
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Arshile Gorky Late Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
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1993
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Arshile GOrky, Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Pedrigao, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
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1990
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Arshile Gorky, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
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1989
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60 Meisterwerke aus der Solomon R. Gugenheim Foundation, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
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1983 - 1984
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Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, 1927-1944, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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1964
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documenta 3, Documenta, Kassel
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1962
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Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1959
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documenta 2, Documenta, Kassel
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1958
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The Disquieting Muse: Surrealism, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
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1956
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Large Scale Paintings II, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
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1953
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5th Anniversary Exhibition, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
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