New York...In the fall of 1924, a young Armenian painter and refugee named Vosdanig Manuk Adoian moved toNew York City and gave himself a new name: Arshile Gorky. With that gesture, the artist (c. 1904-1948) embarkedupon a journey of self-reinvention and aesthetic innovation that would parallel New York’s own transformationfrom an emerging city into a surging metropolis and a cultural epicenter. In a year that saw Manhattan host thepremiere of George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue,’ the public opening of the Morgan Library, the completion ofthe gilded skyscraper known as the American Radiator Building and, in many respects, the birth of the HarlemRenaissance, Gorky took up residence and began forging a path toward becoming one of the most significantartists of the American avant-garde.