"It's like an extraordinary kind of life that is in the process of procreation."
Curator Sheena Wagstaff deciphers the language of Arshile Gorky's painting "Water of the Flowery Mill."
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Deciphering the language of paint in Arshile Gorky's Water of the Flowery Mill.
"It’s like an extraordinary kind of life that is in the process of procreation."
Sheena Wagstaff
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Sheena Wagstaff
Leonard A. Lauder Chairman, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
Leonard A. Lauder Chairman, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
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Arshile Gorky
1944