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Arshile Gorky’s experience as an immigrant to the US and the painting that defined it

An exclusive extract by Adam Gopnik on the Armenian American painter, taken from a collection of essays about the artist’s time in New York City

Gareth Harris
1 July 2025
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Arshile Gorky’s The Artist and His Mother (around 1926–36)
© 2024 The Arshile Gorky Foundation/Whitney Museum of American Art/licensed by Scala