Three Forms
Arshile Gorky
1937
- Medium
- Pen and brush and black ink with traces of oil paint on ivory wove paper with a graphite underdrawing
- Dimensions
- 57.2 × 73.7 cm (22 9/16 × 29 1/16 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)paintpencilinkpen and ink drawingsoil paint (paint)prints and drawingcolored inkblack inkcoating (material)paper (fiber product)
About
Born to a peasant family in Turkish Armenia, Arshile Gorky was deeply affected by the terrible hardships and poverty of his first 15 years. He immigrated to the United States in 1920, after witnessing his mother’s death from starvation. Once established in America, his artistic style rapidly moved from formal, classical depiction toward abstraction.
