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His Own Private Armenia

Anne Hollander: Arshile Gorky, 1 April 2004

Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work 
by Hayden Herrera.
Bloomsbury, 767 pp., £35, October 2003, 9780747566472
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Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings 
edited by Janie Lee and Melvin Lader.
Abrams, 272 pp., £30, December 2003, 0 87427 135 5
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... called Magouche, married the author’s father. The catalogue contains essays by Melvin Lader and Janie Lee on the sources, function and qualities of the drawings, accompanied by reproductions on a larger scale than Herrera could show. Works by Poussin, Vermeer and others are reproduced and then discussed, to give exact indications of what in them had an ...

Chumship

James Lasdun: Upper West Side Cult, 27 July 2023

The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy and the Wild Life of an American Commune 
by Alexander Stille.
Farrar, Straus, 418 pp., $30, June, 978 0 374 60039 6
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... built in Amagansett, he went out there himself, staying with his friends Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, who lived nearby. Before long he had the boozy, brawling couple enrolled at the Institute too, with Pollock assigned to Klein. The Sullivanian line on parents, sex and alcohol went down especially well with Pollock, who was soon hitting the bottle ...

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