Dear Dorothy, my biography is very short [asked for by the MOMA].... I was born in Tiflis, Caucacus, South Russia, October 25th, 1904 and after the usual studies I came to America in 1920. I had been painting steadily since I was seven and continued to do so during my three and a half years at Brown University where I studied engineering. In 1925 I came to New York and taught at the Grand Central Art School for seven years. I have been living and working ever since in New York.

p. 163: in a letter to Dorothy Miller, [at the staff on MOMA, New York], 26 June 1942 - 'Arshile Gorky, – Goats on the roof' (2009)