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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.230
People
Arshile Gorky, American ( Vosdanig Adoian in Khorkom (present-day Dilkaya), Van Province, Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey) 1904 - 1948 Sherman, CT)
Title
Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia; verso: Untitled
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1934
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303410

Location

Location
Level 1, Room 1310, Modern and Contemporary Art, Surrealism
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black, brown, and red-brown ink on off-white wove card prepared irregularly with spattered blue-gray watercolor(?), areas of scraping throughout; verso: graphite and black ink
Dimensions
57.5 x 76.6 cm (22 5/8 x 30 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • blind stamp: STRATHMORE DRAWING BOARD

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1955, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1993.

NOTE: Provenance information from the curatorial file.

Acquisition and Rights

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
1993
Object Number
1993.230
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Robert Taylor, "Venice Observed, Show in Dramatic Fogg Display", The Boston Herald (May 13, 1956), p. 19, p. 19
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 52, fig. 122 (upside down), pp. 76, 126, 371, 375, 381

Exhibition History

  • [Benefit exhibition for the Boston Arts Festival], Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, 05/08/1956 - 05/29/1956
  • New York School: From the First Generation, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1975 - 01/06/1976
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
  • 32Q: 1310 Surrealism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/14/2025 - 10/01/2025

Verification Level

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