Arshile Gorky and the Armenian genocide. (traveling exhibition)

Art in America | February 1, 1996| | Copyright

On the occasion of a traveling exhibition of Arshile Gorky's work of the 1940s, the author argues that Gorky's childhood experiences of persecution and exile are crucial to an understanding of his paintings.

We are but a slice of our homeland 's soul, tossed afar from it by foul storms. Vartoosh, dear, I dream of it always and it is as if some ancient Armenian essence within me moves my hand to create so far from our homeland the shapes of nature we loved in the gardens, wheatfields and orchards of our Adoian family in Khorkom. Our beautiful Armenia which we lost and ...

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