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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.228
People
Arshile Gorky, American ( Vosdanig Adoian in Khorkom (present-day Dilkaya), Van Province, Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey) 1904 - 1948 Sherman, CT)
Title
Untitled
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1944
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305883

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Two kinds of graphite and colored wax crayons with extensive stumping on off-white wove paper edged with lavender paper on left and right sides
Dimensions
50.5 x 66.2 cm (19 7/8 x 26 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, towards l.l. corner: A. Gorky
  • label: typed label affixed to verso: ARTIST: Arshile Gorky / DRAWING: Pencil & Sargent crayon / SIZE: 19 3/4 x 26" / COLLECTION: Agnes Gorky Phillips
  • inscription: verso, lower right, black crayon: A
  • inscription: verso, upper right, blue ballpoint ink: 22 [encircled] / [illegible]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 10 [encircled] C. / 10 [encircled] C.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Agnes Gorky Phillips. [Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1958, 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
1993.228
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Harry Z. Rand, "Arshile Gorky's Iconography" (Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1974), Unpublished, p. 96, repr. as figure 54, with detail repr. as fig. 55.
  • Eila Kokkinen, Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters, exh. cat., Hayden Gallery (Cambridge, MA, 1975), no. 10, ill. p. 26
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 55, fig. 35 (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. 6, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • 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

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