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Art Exhibition Catalogues
Now Available for Sale!
Vosdanik Manouk Adoian a.k.a.
ARSHILE GORKY
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Museum co-sponsored an art exhibition with the Fresno Art Museum, featuring
seminal works of Arshile Gorky, renowned Armenian-American abstract
impressionist. Never before had the Fresno community experienced a viewing of
Arshile Gorky's bold imagery that captivated the New York art world in the 1930s
and 1940s.
The Vosdanik Manouk Adoian a.k.a. ARSHILE GORKY exhibition presented one of
Gorky's most recognized paintings: The Artist and His Mother, from the National
Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Other paintings and drawings in the exhibition
(highlighted in the catalogue) came from the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Diocese of the Armenian
Church of America (Eastern), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal; and from
the Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Gallery in Los Angeles.
Along with over 25 colored plates, the art catalogue includes articles by Dore
Ashton, "A Straggler's View of Gorky" (reprint), Matthew Spender, "The Weight of
the Past in Arshile Gorky's Work," and Jacquelin Pilar, curator, Fresno Art
Museum, about the enigmatic life and work of Arshile Gorky.
The Gorky Festival brought together numerous organizations to showcase Gorky's
heritage and life's work. Included among the activities were lectures, theatrical
productions (featuring Nouritza Matossian's one-woman performance based on her
book, Black Angel), photographic exhibitions, and music.
The Armenian Museum hopes to engage your attendance in the 2008 William
Saroyan Centennial. For more details, see Centennial Events.
