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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1974.70
People
Arshile Gorky, American ( Vosdanig Adoian in Khorkom (present-day Dilkaya), Van Province, Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey) 1904 - 1948 Sherman, CT)
Title
Parthenon Horses; verso: Study of Horse's Head and of a Man
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Man on Horse
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1935
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309112

Location

Location
Level 1, Room 1300, Modern and Contemporary Art, Early Modernism
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
11.3 x 18.2 cm (4 7/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Portnoff, New York, New York. [Angus Whyte Gallery, Boston Massachusetts], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1974.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Fund for Acquisitions
Copyright
© 2020 The Arshile Gorky Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1974
Object Number
1974.70
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Perforated at left edge where torn from sketchbook.

Publication History

  • Jim Jordan, Gorky: Drawings, exh. cat., Walker and Company (New York, NY, 1969), p.6; reproduced p. 27, fig. 36; cat. no. 36, p. 56
  • Brooks Joyner, The Drawings of Arshile Gorky, University of Maryland Art Department and Art Gallery (College Park, MD, 1969), p. 8; reproduced p. 30, fig. 10, cat. no. 11 (p. 55)
  • Hayden Herrera, "The Sculptures of Arshile Gorky", Arts Magazine (March 1976), vol. L, no. 7, p. 90
  • 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. 62, repr.

Exhibition History

  • The Drawings of Arshile Gorky, University of Maryland Art Department and Art Gallery, College Park, 03/20/1969 - 04/27/1969
  • Gorky: Drawings, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 11/25/1969 - 12/27/1969
  • New York School: From the First Generation, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1975 - 01/06/1976
  • Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006
  • 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/14/2025 - 10/01/2025

Verification Level

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