The astounding story of a newly discovered Gorky painting In 1946 Arshile Gorky 190448 spent the summer at Crooked Run Farm in Lincoln Virginia. In this time he produced almost 300 drawings including a study for one of his most remarkable paintings The Limit 1947which he described as the outcome of being so lonely exasperated and how to paint such empty spaceso empty its the limit. Also among Gorkys output that summer was a related series later referred to as the Virginia Summer drawings. D