Arshile Gorky

Surrealist painters and their precursors (84 person items)

"(1904-1948) The Liver is the Cock's Comb (1944)"

100 Great Paintings (139 art items)

"One Year the Milkweed (1944)"

Artists Who Committed Suicide (14 person items)

"Arshile Gorky was an abstract expressionist painter who predominantly worked using simple shapes and colors to express meaning. In the years leading up to his death, Gorky endured many unfortunate and tragic events. In 1946, a fire broke out at his studio and many of his finest paintings were burnt to ash. In the weeks following this, his health deteriorated and he was diagnosed with cancer. Shortly after that, he discovered that his wife Agnes had been cheating on him with another artist. The c"