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Biography
Gorky was born in the village of Khorkom near Van, Turkey. When he was four, his father immigrated to America to avoid the draft, leaving his son behind. Gorky fled Van in 1915 during the Turkish genocide of Armenians. Gorky's mother later died of starvation in his arms during the genocide. Gorky was reunited with his father when he arrived in America in 1920, aged 16, but they never grew close. At age 31, Gorky married.
In 1922 Gorky enrolled in the New School of Design in Boston, eventually becoming a part-time instructor. During the early 1920s he was influenced by impressionism, although later in the decade he produced works that were more postimpressionist. During this time he was living in New York and was influenced by Paul Cezanne. Notable paintings from this time include Landscape in the Manner of Cezanne (1927) and Landscape, Staten Island (1927-1928). At the close of the 1920s and into the 1930s he experimented with Picasso’s cubism, Kandinsky (abstraction) and eventually moving to surrealism like Miro. Nighttime, Enigma, Nostalgia (1930-1934) is a series of complex works that characterize this phase of his painting. (continued on the bottom)
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In letters to his sisters Gorky often described moods of melancholy, and expressed loneliness and emptiness, nostalgia for his country, and bitterly and vividly recalled the circumstances of his mother's death.
The years preceding Gorky's death were filled with immense pain and heartbreak. His studio barn burned down in flames, he underwent a colostomy for cancer, his neck was broken and his painting arm temporarily paralyzed in a car accident, and his wife of seven years left him, taking their children with her. Gorky hanged himself in Sherman, Connecticut, in 1948, at the age of 44. He is buried in North Cemetery in Sherman, Connecticut.