Gorky, Arshile

Arshile Gorky
(Hayotz Dore 1905 - Sherman, 1948)

Armenian-born American painter, regarded as a leading figure in Abstract Expressionism.

Influenced by Cezanne, Picasso and later by the Surrealists, his most well known works include: The Artists and his Mother (Whitney Museum, New York) and an abstract mural located at the Newark airport, New Jersey.

2007   "Picasso and American Art," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2006   "Société Anonyme: Modernism in America," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2005   "Exil und Moderne," Kunsthalle St. Annen Lübeck, Lübeck
2005   "Surrealism USA," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2005   "Dream On: Surrealism and Beyond from the Phoenix Art Museum Collection," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2005   "Informalismo y Expresionismo abstracto en las colecciones Guggenheim," Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao
2005   "Into The Unknown: Abstraction From The Collection," MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
2005   "Out of Site: Selections from the Marsha S. Glazer Collection," Art Museum at U.C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2005   "After Cézanne," MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA; MOCA THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY, Los Angeles, CA
2004   "Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2004   "Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings," The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
2004   "Das MoMA in Berlin. Meisterwerke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York." Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
2003   "Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2003   "Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
2003   "El Expresionismo Abstracto Americano en las Colecciones Españolas," Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia
2003   "The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings & Sculptures," MFAH: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2003   "International Abstraction: Making Painting Real," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2003   "Arshile Gorky," Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
2002   "Arshile Gorky," Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
2002   "Think Small: Little Treasures from the Permanent Collection," Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2002   "Arshile Gorky: Portraits," Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2002   "Surrealism: Desire Unbound," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2002   "The Tiger's Eye: The Art of a Magazine," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2001   "The Kindness of Friends: A Selection of Gifts of Drawings and Prints, 1919-2000" Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
2001   "Collecting the Vanguard: Art from 1900-1970," The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
2000   "Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection," The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1999   "De Durero a Rauschenberg: La quintaesencia del dibujo," Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao
1999   "Linhas de Sombra," Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
1998   "Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, 1929-1942," Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1998   "The New York School," Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1998   "Defining the Edge: Early American Abstraction-Selections," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1998   "Hannah Höch, Mit Pinsel, Feder und Schere," Galerie Remmert und Barth, Duesseldorf

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