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Water of the Flowery Mill

Arshile Gorky American, born Armenia
1944
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Water of the Flowery Mill is part of a group of landscape-inspired works that Gorky produced during the last six years of his life. Based on his study of an old mill and bridge on the Housatonic River in Connecticut, it also evokes the artist’s nostalgia for Armenia, from which he and his family had fled some twenty years earlier. Influenced by Surrealism, Gorky’s fluid, biomorphic abstraction translates the landscape into flat, overlapping fields of color and seems to anticipate the gestural brushwork of Abstract Expressionism, a movement that emerged in the 1950s.

Artwork Details

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  • Title: Water of the Flowery Mill
  • Artist: Arshile Gorky (American (born Armenia), Khorkom 1904–1948 Sherman, Connecticut)
  • Date: 1944
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 42 1/4 × 48 3/4 in. (107.3 × 123.8 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: George A. Hearn Fund, 1956
  • Object Number: 56.205.1
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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