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Arshile Gorky

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Profession
Painter
Died
Jul 21, 1948
Zodiac
Aries
Born in
Turkey
About
Armenian-American painter who influenced Abstract Expressionism and whose work was informed by the Armenian Genocide.
Family
His birth name was Vosdanig Manoug Adoian. Out of admiration for Maxim Gorky, he adopted the famous author's last name and even told people that he was the more famous Gorky's relative. He married at age thirty-one and had several children.

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