Arshile Gorky pintor armenio nacido en Khorgom, Vilayet of Van, Ottoman Empire.

Arshile Gorky born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, Armenian:  April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-born 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 of the Armenian Genocide. Gorky hanged himself in Sherman, Connecticut in 1948 at the age of 44. He is buried in North Cemetery in Sherman, Connecticut.