Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, (better known as Arshile Gorky was an Armenian American painter who was as a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. Wikipedia
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Arshile Gorky (Vosdanik Adoian) was born in 1904 or 1905 (there are differing accounts of the date) in the province of Van in Armenia. Following the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks in 1915, the scattering of his family, and the death of his young www.tfaoi.com/aa/3aa/3aa601.htm
ke, c.1900-48, American painter, b. Armenia as Vosdanig Adoian. He escaped the Turkish slaughter of Armenians, emigrated to the United States in 1920, studied at Boston's New School of Design, and moved to New York City in 1925. An extraordinarily flu www.questia.com/library/art-and-architecture/arshile-gork...
Arshile Gorky was born Vosdanik Manook Adoian in Van, a center of ancient Armenian culture. In 1914 the Ottoman Turkish government started a systematic persecution of the Armenians and began a savage campaign with massacres, sieges, and forced marches th www.martinries.com/article2007AG.htm
Gorky was born in the village of Khorkom near Van, Turkey . It is not known exactly when he was born: it was sometime between 1902 and 1905. (In later years Gorky was always vague about even the date of his birthday, it would change from year to year!) www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Arshile_Gorky
