- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1976.78
- People
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Arshile Gorky, American (
Vosdanig Adoian in Khorkom (present-day Dilkaya), Van Province, Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey) 1904 - 1948 Sherman, CT)
- Title
- Study for "The Calendars"
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1946
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/299933
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Charcoal and colored chalks on a ground of rubbed charcoal heavily modeled by erasures, on off-white wove paper, mounted on Kraft paper and wrapped around a strainer
- Dimensions
- 86.7 x 104.8 cm (34 1/8 x 41 1/4 in.)
framed: 97.2 x 115.9 x 3.2 cm (38 1/4 x 45 5/8 x 1 1/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- gallery label: removed from reverse, now in curatorial file, paper, typed: Gorky: The Calendars--1946, No. 5044
- Provenance
- Arshile Gorky Estate. [Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1956, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1976.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
- Copyright
- © 2020 The Arshile Gorky Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 1976
- Object Number
- 1976.78
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Julien Levy, Arshile Gorky, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1966), reproduced, plate 141
Harry Z. Rand, "Arshile Gorky's Iconography" (Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1974), Unpublished, pp. 93-111, reproduced fig. 49; details reproduced figs. 50 - 53
Eila Kokkinen, Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters, exh. cat., Hayden Gallery (Cambridge, MA, 1975), cat. 16, pp. 6-7, ill. p. 28
Harry Z. Rand, "The Calendars of Arshile Gorky", Arts Magazine (March 1976), vol. L, no. 7, pp. 70-80, reproduced p. 72, details reproduced pp. 73, 74
E. A. Carmean, Jr. and Eliza E. Rathbone, American Art at Mid-Century: The Subjects of the Artist, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1978), p. 70; reproduced fig. 16, p. 71
Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski and Thea Jirat-Wasiutynski, "The Uses of Charcoal in Drawing", Arts Magazine (October 1980), vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 128-135, p. 134
Melvin P. Lader, Arshile Gorky, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1985), p. 98, fig. 98
Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, pp. 96 and 118, fig. 87, reproduced
Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 307, p. 263, repr.
Larry Silver, Art in History, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993), reproduced in b/w p. 432, fig. 10.3
James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), p. 240, ill. p. 241
Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
Modern Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan, 1999), cat. no. 56, repr. (color)
Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 57, fig. 29 (color), pp. 65, 371, 376
Harry Cooper, Jody Patterson, and Robert Storr, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, exh. cat., ed. Dr. Michael R. Taylor, Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, 2009), no. 169, repr.
- Exhibition History
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Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters, Hayden Gallery, Cambridge, 02/21/1975 - 03/26/1975
New York School: From the First Generation, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1975 - 01/06/1976
Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000
Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 10/15/2009 - 01/10/2010
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