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): Adrian Cadbury • Daniel Paille • Francesco Maria Brancaccio • Hans Conried • Karel Kroupa • Kevin Stevens • Leander Dendoncker • Lee Kernaghan • Milton Bradley (baseball) • Percy Shaw • Tim Thomas (ice hockey, born 1974) • Tom Heaton • Tom Kane

Born in the same month (April 1904): Bruce Cabot • Cecil Day-Lewis • Chancellor of Germany • David Robinson (philanthropist) • Erwin Komenda • Iron Eyes Cody • J. Robert Oppenheimer • Jean Hélion • Louis Muhlstock • Richard Eberhart • Roland Wilson (economist) • Russel Wright • Sharkey Bonano • Willem de Kooning