Arshile Gorky (1904–1948), born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, was an Armenian painter who strongly influenced the Abstract Expressionist movement. In 1920 he immigrated to the United States after surviving the Armenian Genocide. Sadly, he lost his mother in the process. This tragedy would have a lasting impact on the young artist and his paintings. He has been categorized alongside Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning as one of America’s greatest artists. Towards the end of his career, most of Gorky’s works were heavily inspired by Surrealism and nature.
Paintings by Arshile Gorky in Chronological Order:
 |
 |
 |
| Park Street Church, 1924 | Bound in Sleep, 1925 | Man’s Head, 1925 |
 |
 |
 |
| Portrait of Azadoohi (Liberty Miller), c.1926 | Pears, Peaches, and Pitcher, 1926-1927 | Portrait of a Young Man, 1924-1927 |
 |
 |
 |
| Self-Portrait at the Age of Nine, 1928 | Portrait of Master Bill, 1926-1929 | Untitled (Self-Portrait), c.1928-c.1929 |
 |
 |
 |
| Still Life (Red and Yellow), 1930 | Untitled (Cubist Figure), c.1930 | Blue Figure in a Chair, c.1931 |
 |
 |
 |
| The Raven (Composition No. 3), 1931 | Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia, c.1931-c.1932 | The Barber (Composition No. 5), 1933 |
 |
 |
 |
| Night-time, Enigma, and Nostalgia, 1932-1934 | Portrait of Myself and My Imaginary Wife, c.1933-c.1934 | Untitled (Abstract Landscape), c.1930-c.1934 |
 |
 |
 |
| Leonora Portnoff, 1935 | Battle at Sunset with the God of Maize (Composition No. 1), 1936 | Child of an Idumean Night (Composition No. 4), 1936 |
 |
 |
 |
| Image in Khorkom, c.1934-c.1936 | Organization, 1933-1936 | Portrait of Akabi, c.1936 |
 |
 |
 |
| Still Life (Composition No. 7), c.1933-c.1936 | The Artist with His Mother, 1926-1936 | The Artists’s Mother, c.1936 |
 |
 |
 |
| Tracking Down Guiltless Doves, 1936 | Woman with Necklace Marquette, 1936 | Enigmatic Combat, 1936-1937 |
 |
 |
 |
| Painting, 1936-1937 | Portrait of Ahko, c.1937 | Self-Portrait, c.1937 |
 |
 |
 |
| Portrait (Head), 1938 | Hitler invades Poland, 1939 | Composition, c.1938-c.1940 |
 |
 |
 |
| Garden in Sochi, 1941 | Garden in Sochi, c.1943 | Waterfall, 1943 |
 |
 |
 |
| Waterfall, c.1943 | Golden Brown Painting, 1943-1944 | How My Mother’s Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life, 1944 |
 |
 |
 |
| Landscape, 1944 | One Year the Milkweed, 1944 | The Leaf of the Artichoke is an Owl, 1944 |
 |
 |
 |
| The Liver is the Cock’s Comb, 1944 | Untitled, 1944 | Good Hope Road, 1945 |
 |
 |
 |
| Charred Beloved II, 1946, 1946 | Fireplace in Virginia, 1946 | From a High Place II, 1946 |
 |
 |
 |
| Nude, 1946 | Untitled, 1946 | Agony, 1947 |
 |
 |
 |
| Soft Night, 1947 | The Betrothal II, 1947 | The Limit, 1947 |
 |
 |
 |
| Diary of a Seducer | Mechanics of Flying | Moma |
 |
 |
 |
| Portrait of Vartoost | Still Life of Flower | Summation |
 |
 |
 |
| The Observer | Untitled | Water of the Flowery Mill |