Composition (Still Life)
Composition (Still Life)
Artist
Arshile Gorky
(ca. 1904 - 1948)
Date1936-1938
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions34 x 26 in. (86.4 x 66 cm)
Framed: 41 1/4 × 33 1/2 × 2 3/8 in.
Framed: 41 1/4 × 33 1/2 × 2 3/8 in.
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LinePromised Gift to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
On View
Not on viewGorky began life in Armenia, as Vosdanig Adoian. In 1916 his family fled to the United States to escape the increasing persecution of Armenians during World War I. After arriving on Ellis Island, Vosdanig renamed himself: Arshile—a Russian derivative of Achilles—and Gorky, after the Russian writer Maxim Gorky, whose name means “the bitter one.”
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
1856
