Reuben Nakian
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Reuben Nakian was an American sculptor and teacher of Armenian extraction. His works' recurring themes are from Greek and Roman mythology. Noted works include Leda and the Swan, The Rape of Lucrece, H
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Arshile Gorky
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Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-American painter. At first influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Gorky's later work presaged and exerted a seminal influence on abstract expressionism. Alon
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…Boss and A.S. Baylinson. Later he studied at the Art Students League of New York and was apprenticed to Paul Manship. He met and befriended painters Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning in the 1930s and Marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp in the 1940s. Poet Frank O'Hara was the curator of a major Reuben Nakian…
Gorky in 1936
Arshile Gorky's The Artist and His Mother (c. 1926–1936), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.
Arshile Gorky's Portrait of Master Bill, 1929–1936. Oil on canvas.
Arshile Gorky working on Activities on the field, one of the panels for his mural Aviation at Newark Airport, for the Federal Art Project, 1936