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Armenian, 20th century, male.
Born 1904, in Khorkom Vari Haiyotz Dzor, Turkey; died 21 July 1948, in Sherman (Connecticut), USA.
Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, watercolourist.
Action Painting.
School of New York.
Arshile Gorky’s family emigrated to Yerevan in Armenia in 1914, after the Turkish massacres of the Armenians. From 1916 to 1918, he studied at the Polytechnic in Tiflis (now Tbilisi). In 1920,
Reference Entry. 1964 words.
Subjects: Art ; Biographical Studies
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