“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 1944 painting Water of the Flowery Mill.
Deciphering the Flowers
Sheena Wagstaff
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Contributors
Sheena Wagstaff
Leonard A. Lauder Chairman, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
Leonard A. Lauder Chairman, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
Photography by Joseph Coscia Jr.
Art Mentioned
Arshile Gorky
1944
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