Arshile GorkyUSA, 1904–1948Organization
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I Arshile Gorkys liv
Hela livet1925–1931
Teaches at the Grand Central School of Art
Edmund Greacen of the Grand Central Art Galleries asked Gorky to teach at the Grand Central School of Art in New York, and he stayed there until 1931; his notable students included Revington Arthur. Other accounts say he taught there from 1926.
1930s
Collaboration with Davis, de Kooning and Graham
In the 1930s Gorky worked closely with Stuart Davis, Willem de Kooning and John Graham.
1931
First solo exhibition in Philadelphia
Gorky’s first solo exhibition took place at the Mellon Galleries in Philadelphia.
1935
Contract with the Guild Art Gallery
Gorky signed a three-year contract with the Guild Art Gallery in New York, co-owned by Anna Walinska and Margaret Lefranc but funded and directed by Lefranc. The gallery organized his first solo exhibition in New York, “Abstract Drawings by Arshile Gorky”.
1935
Joins the WPA Federal Art Project
Gorky became one of the first artists employed by the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration; it later came to include Alice Neel, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Diego Rivera and Mark Rothko.
1938
Major exhibition at the Boyer Galleries
A large exhibition of Gorky’s work opened at the Boyer Galleries in New York.
