1993.227: Flowers

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1993.227

People

Arshile Gorky, American ( Vosdanig Adoian in Khorkom (present-day Dilkaya), Van Province, Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey) 1904 - 1948 Sherman, CT)

Title

Flowers

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1943

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305882

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite and colored wax crayons with extensive stumping, erasure and working with a sharp tool, on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

35.4 x 56.4 cm (13 15/16 x 22 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r.: A. Gorky / 43
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: Jk[?]-5
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 311969
• inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: Pinler[?]
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 19 1/2 x 26 1/2 / 14 1/2 x 22 1/4 / V 41[?]
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 175-
• inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: AB
• inscription: verso, lower left, black crayon: JL
• inscription: verso, upper left, black ballpoint ink: 1 [encircled]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Julian Levy, New York, New York. [Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1957, 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

1993.227

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Robert F. Reiff, "A Stylistic Analysis of Arshile Gorky's Art From 1943-1948" (Thesis, Columbia University, 1961), Unpublished, p. 42-43, 64, 70-74, repr. p. 311.
• James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), p. 78, ill. (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. 53, fig. 38 (color), pp. 76, 371, 377
• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., Knoedler & Co. Inc. (New York, 2003), cat. no. 4, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

• New York School: From the First Generation, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1975 - 01/06/1976
• A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1940 to 2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/2000 - 08/27/2000
• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 11/14/2003 - 01/24/2004
• HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/23/2005 - 07/31/2005
• Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #2: CB30 Photography and Society & HAA172w American Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/2009 - 01/10/2010
• American Art and Modernity, 1865–1965, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2012 - 01/19/2013

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