Arshile Gorky ( ; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian , ; April 15 , 1904 – July 21 , 1948 ) was an Armenian-American painter , who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism . He spent most his life as a national of the United States . Along with Mark Rothko , Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning , Gorky has been hailed as one of the most powerful American painters of the 20th century . As such , his works were often speculated to have been informed by the suffering and loss he experienced in the Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Arshile Gorky