A Portrait of Arshile - ACE294.2

Extreme close shot of small child. VOs tell him (in Armenian and English) that he’s named after a man who painted a portrait of himself and his mother, based on a photograph taken in Armenia in 1912 when the boy was eight… The child is named Arshile. VOs continue to relate the stories of the family through famine in Yeravan in 1919. The 1912 photograph. The VOs say that the boy, Vosdanik Adoian, changed his name to Arshile Gorky. Sketches of the photograph. The painting. Credits.