Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky 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. The suffering and loss he experienced in the Armenian genocide had crucial influence at Gorky's development as an artist.

15 April 1904

Born on the same birth day (15 April): Billy Yates (American football) • Robert Walser • Sarah Teichmann • Tim Lankester • W. D. Ross

Born in the same month (April 1904): Cecil Day-Lewis • Clifford Bricker • Duncan Renaldo • Jean Hélion • John Gielgud • John Hicks • Pigmeat Markham • Roland Wilson (economist) • Sally Rand • Willem de Kooning • Xenophon Zolotas