From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky by Matthew Spender

From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky

Matthew Spender

440 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

art biography informative reflective slow-paced
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An immigrant from a small Armenian village in eastern Turkey, Arshile Gorky (c. 1900-1948) made his way to the U.S. to become a painter in 1920. Having grown up haunted by memories of his alternately idyllic and terrifying childhood—his family fle...

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