Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné
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Photo: © Courtesy the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
D1262
[Untitled]
1946
Graphite pencil and crayon on paper
19 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. (48.6 x 63.8 cm)
Recto, in pencil, lower right: A Gorky 46
Verso not inscribed
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
50th Anniversary Gift of Edith and Lloyd Goodrich in honor of Juliana Force (82.48)
Exhibitions
1970a New York
New School Art Center, New York, Museum Leaders Collect: Selections from the Private Collections of Ten New York Museum Directors and Curators, April 24–May 27, 1970, no. 17, ill. in b/w, as "Drawing".
1980d New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 50th Anniversary Gifts, June 3–August 31, 1980, as "Drawing".
1981b New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Decade of Transition: 1940–1950, April 30–July 12, 1981, as "Drawing".
1981e New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Drawing Acquisitions, 1978–1981, September 17–November 15, 1981, ill. in b/w, p. 37, as "Drawing".
1989b New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Art in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions, July 7–October 29, 1989, as "Drawing".
1991c New York
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, Drawing Acquisitions, 1980–1991: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, June 12–September 5, 1991, as "Drawing".
2003–04b New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings, November 20, 2003–February 15, 2004, no. 109, ill. in color, p. 189; p. 244, as "Untitled". Traveled to: Menil Collection, Houston, March 5–May 9, 2004.
Literature
Bulletin of the Whitney Museum of American Art 1980b
"50th Anniversary Gifts." Bulletin of the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) 2 (Fall 1980), discussed p. 61, as "Drawing".
Beredjiklian 2007
Beredjiklian, Alexandre. Arshile Gorky: sept thèmes majeurs. Suresnes, France: Alphamédian & Johanet; Lisbon: Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007. Monograph, discussed p. 71, as "Untitled".
Notes
Verso, in pencil, lower right [not in artist's hand]: 82.48
The verso inscription information and marking are known from the records of the Arshile Gorky Foundation.

Commentary

The first owner of the drawing was the American painter Ethel Kremer Schwabacher (1903–1984), who met Gorky in New York in 1928. Between January 1934 and 1935, the friendship deepened as she and fellow patron Mina Boehm Metzger (1877–1975) shared private lessons with the artist, meeting at his 36 Union Square studio three afternoons a week for three hours. Ethel and her husband, Wolfgang Schwabacher (m. 1935; 1898–1951), remained devoted patrons of Gorky's work throughout their lives. In 1957, Ethel published the first monograph on Gorky (Schwabacher 1957). 

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