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Arshile Gorky

1904 - 1948

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Arshile Gorky ( AR-sheel GOR-kee; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, Armenian: Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent the last years of his life as a national of the United States. Along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Gorky has been hailed as one of the most powerful American painters of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arshile Gorky has received more than 738,574 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Arshile Gorky is the 762nd most popular painter (down from 466th in 2019), the 551st most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 456th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Turkish Painter.

Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-American painter. He is most famous for his abstract expressionist paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Arshile Gorky ranks 762 out of 2,023. Before him are Antonio Vivarini, Bruce Nauman, Bramantino, Roberto Ferruzzi, Jacek Malczewski, and Walter Sickert. After him are Sophie Gengembre Anderson, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Shen Zhou, John Martin, Adriaen van de Velde, and Alexei Savrasov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Arshile Gorky ranks 95. Before him are Oskar R. Lange, Edmund Veesenmayer, Anna Mahler, Emilio Fernández, José Antonio Aguirre, and Deng Yingchao. After him are Joseph M. Juran, Mihai Antonescu, Christopher Isherwood, Christian-Jaque, Tadao Takayama, and Karl Ernst. Among people deceased in 1948, Arshile Gorky ranks 70. Before him are Hasan Salama, Jacques Feyder, Therese Brandl, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Harry Dexter White, and Manuel Ponce. After him are Paul Wegener, Solomon Mikhoels, Fakhri Pasha, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Kâzım Karabekir, and Sonny Boy Williamson I.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Arshile Gorky ranks 551 out of 1,347. Before him are Pir Sultan Abdal (1480), Ahmed Muhtar Pasha (1839), Prusias II of Bithynia (-300), Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir (1878), Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin (1857), and Sittişah Hatun (1435). After him are Sheikh Said (1864), Agathius (300), Ivan Isakov (1894), Crantor (-400), Devlet Bahçeli (1948), and Darío Moreno (1921).

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Among PAINTERS In Türkiye

Among painters born in Türkiye, Arshile Gorky ranks 5. Before him are Apelles (-370), Theophanes the Greek (1340), Parrhasius (-500), and Osman Hamdi Bey (1842). After him are Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid (1901), Iaia (-100), Jan Rustem (1762), Halil Pasha (1857), Hale Asaf (1905), and Nevin Çokay (1930).

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