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Photo: Peter Schälchli
D1028
(Virginia Landscape)
c. 1944
Crayon and graphite pencil on paper
18 1/2 x 23 5/8 in. (47 x 60 cm)
Recto not inscribed
Verso not seen
Verso not seen
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection (1975)
Private collection (likely by April 1987)
Exhibitions
Arts Council of Great Britain, London (organizer), Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, 1975–77, no. 22, as "Landscape," dated 1943. Traveled to: Southampton Art Gallery, United Kingdom, December 12, 1975–February 22, 1976; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, April 3–May 2, 1976; Sunderland Art Gallery, United Kingdom, June 5–August 15, 1976; City Art Gallery, Dundee, United Kingdom, August 21–November 27, 1976; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United Kingdom, December 19, 1976–January 16, 1977; Serpentine Gallery, London, March 12–April 11, 1977.
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper, 1938–1948, July 16–September 14, 1986, no. 17, ill. in color, p. 75; ill. in color on cover and back cover, as "Virginia Landscape". Traveled to: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 13, 1986–January 21, 1987; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 21–April 19, 1987.
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, Arshile Gorky: Œuvres sur Papier, 1929–1947; Arbeiten auf Papier, 1929–1947, September 21–November 11, 1990, no. 60, ill. in color, p. 130; p. 197, as "Paysage de Virginie / Landschaft in Virginia". Traveled to: Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, January 16–February 27, 1991; Musée Cantini, Marseille, France, March 15–May 30, 1991; Musée d'art Moderne de Saint Étienne, France, June 20–September 2, 1991; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, September 25–November 10, 1991; Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany, November 19, 1991–January 26, 1992.
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy, Arshile Gorky: Works on Paper / Opere su Carta, April–June 28, 1992, no. 32, ill. in color, p. 101, as "Landscape in Virginia / Paesaggio della Virginia". Traveled to: Palazzo delle Esponsizioni, Rome, October 14–November 30, 1992; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, July 21–August 27, 1993.
Galleria Comunale d'Arte, Palazzo Sarcinelli, Conegliano, Italy, Da Monet a Morandi: paesaggi dello spirito, April 13–June 15, 1997, ill. in color, p. 103, as "Paesaggio della Virginia".
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings, November 20, 2003–February 15, 2004, no. 81, ill. in color, p. 151; p. 244, as "Landscape in Virginia". Traveled to: Menil Collection, Houston, March 5–May 9, 2004.
Ca'Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice, Italy, Arshile Gorky: 1904–1948, May 8–September 22, 2019, ill. in color, p. 171, as "Virginia Landscape".
Literature
Spender, Saskia and Edith Devaney. Ardent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes, 1943–47. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2017. Exhibition catalogue (2017 New York), ill. in color, pp. 42–43; p. 138, as "Virginia Landscape".
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