Arshile Gorky painting + Armanian memorial plaque 1918?

These are 2 more Armanian pieces i found at my local thrift store (along with the 4 paintings by Armand? I posted about earlier) - I guess a Armanian home did a spring cleaning and donated a lot of stuff?

I am pretty sure the tiger painting signed A. Gorky is by Arshile Gorky?

The memorial plaque is dated 1918, but an image search turns up many exactly the same?
Some say art deco, so.e say colonial - what is it (and why so many exactly the same?) & how old is it really?
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Trying to research Arshille Gorky - could my painting be by Arshile Gorky, like I'm hoping?
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IMO no, sorry. The painting doesn’t look anything remotely like Gorky’s work beside the fact that it has drip elements. Pollack’s first drip was in ‘46 and Gorky was ill and killed himself in ‘48. I’d love to be wrong on this journey.

 

I think Gorky is a fairly common name.

 

But A. Gorky, surreal / expressionism artist common?

 

I don't see how you get expressionist or surrealist out of those images. Gorky, as in probably a lot of artists of that name, most of them unrecorded and forgotten..

 

You're probably right, but somewhere i think he worke

Probably not surrealist your right, but expressionist?

 

I don't see them as images inspiring an emotional response. I can't read the text, but I imagine they are narrative, illustrations to a story.

 

IMO the painting was made to deceive…it’s absolutely got nothing related to Arshile Gorky aside from the sig.