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Gorky in Philadelphia

by Karen Wilkin

On “Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Looking back on his early years in New York, Willem de Kooning often spoke of an encounter that proved crucial to his life as a painter. “I was lucky enough when I came to this country,” he told Harold Rosenberg, “to meet the three smartest guys on the scene: [Arshile] Gorky, Stuart Davis and ...

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Karen Wilkin is an editor at The Hudson Review and on the faculty at the New York Studio School. 


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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 December 2009, on page 13

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