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Provenance
Exhibitions
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition, January 5–February 18, 1951, no. 94, p. 48 (exhibited in New York only). Traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, March 4–April 22, 1951; San Francisco Museum of Art, California, May 9–July 9, 1951.
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, Drawings for Principal Paintings by Gorky, September 26–October 22, 1955, no. 29, as "Summation".
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Department of Circulating Exhibitions (organizer), The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller, 1961–62, ill. in b/w, as "Summation". Traveled to: Art Institute of Chicago, September 22–October 22, 1961; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, January 22–February 25, 1962; Cleveland Museum of Art, March 13–April 10, 1962; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, April 30–June 3, 1962; Portland Art Museum, Oregon, June 15–July 22, 1962; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 5–October 14, 1962.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Arshile Gorky, 1904–1948, December 19, 1962–February 12, 1963. (Exhibition catalogue: Seitz 1962), no. 93, ill. in b/w, p. 39; p. 55, as "Summation". Traveled to: Washington Gallery of Modern Art, D.C., March 12–April 14, 1963.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 26 Artists from Museums and Friends Collections, July 16–September 8, 1963, as "Summation".
Museum of Modern Art, New York, The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation, June 18–October 5, 1969, no. 24, as "Summation".
M. Knoedler & Co. Inc, New York, Gorky: Drawings, November 25–December 27, 1969. (Exhibition catalogue: Jordan 1969), no. 106, ill. in b/w, p. 43; p. 60, as "Summation".
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Drawn in America, March 1–May 29, 1972, no. 12, as "Summation".
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective, April 24–July 19, 1981, no. 247, ill. in b/w, p. 251, as "Summation". Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 12–November 6, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981–February 28, 1982.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from the Museum of Modern Art, October 29, 1983–January 3, 1984, discussed p. 184; ill. in color, p. 185, as "Summation".
Museum of Modern Art, New York, The New York School, September 17, 1998–January 12, 1999.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings, November 20, 2003–February 15, 2004, no. 140, ill. in color, p. 241; p. 245, as "Summation," [exhibited in New York only]. Traveled to: Menil Collection, Houston, March 5–May 9, 2004.
Literature
Greenberg, Clement. "Art." The Nation (New York) 166 (March 20, 1948), discussed p. 332, as "an enormous drawing".
Kramer, Hilton. "Month in Review: Drawings from Gorky's Last Years." Arts Magazine (New York) 30 (October 1955), discussed p. 48, as "Summation".
33 Paintings by Arshile Gorky. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1957. Exhibition catalogue (1957f New York), no. 37, ill. in b/w (in situ), as "Gallery View, Gorky Exhibition, September 1955".
Friedman, B.H. "The New Collector: Three Typical Collections." Art in America (New York) 46, no. 2 (Summer 1958), discussed, pp. 18–19; ill. in b/w, p. 19, as "Summation".
Levy, Julien. Arshile Gorky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966. Monograph, pl. 146, ill. in color, p. 170, as "Summation".
Three Generations of Twentieth-Century Art: The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art; distributed by the New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, CT, 1972, ill. in b/w, p. 185, as "Summation".
Kagitani, Y. "Arshile Gorky: A Man Who Lived in the Middle of Solitude." Mizue (みづゑ) (Tokyo) 9, no. 858 (September 1976), ill. in b/w, p. 33.
Rathbone, Eliza E. "Arshile Gorky: The Plow and the Song." In American Art at Mid-Century: The Subjects of the Artist. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1978. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 18, ill. in b/w, p. 71, as "Summation".
Waldman, Diane. "Arshile Gorky: Poet in Paint." In Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1981. Exhibition catalogue, discussed p. 59, as "Summation".
Millard, Charles W. "Arshile Gorky." The Hudson Review (New York) 35, no. 1 (Spring 1982), discussed, pp. 110–111.
Lader, Melvin P. Arshile Gorky. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. Monograph, fig. 102, ill. in color, p. 101, as "Summation".
Corrin, Lisa. "Toward Armenia: Notes of a Journey." In Arshile Gorky: 1904–1948. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1, ill. in b/w, p. 180, as "Summation".
Anfam, David. Abstract Expressionism. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1990, discussed p. 118, as "Summation".
Chan, Mary. "Drawings of the New York School." MoMA (New York) 1 (November–December 1998), discussed p.13, as "Summation".
MoMA Highlights: 325 Works from the Museum of Modern Art New York. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1999, ill. in color, p. 188, as "Summation".
Karmel, Pepe. "Arshile Gorky: Anatomical Blackboard." Master Drawings (New York) 40 (2002), fig. 11, ill. in color, pp. 18–19; ill. in color (detail), front and back covers, as "Summation".
Anfam, David. "Arshile Gorky: New York and Houston." The Burlington Magazine (London) 146 (March 2004), fig. 79, ill. in color, p. 205, as "Summation".
MoMA Highlights: 350 Works from the Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2004, ill. in color, p. 188, as "Summation".
Princenthal, Nancy. "Line Readings: Arshile Gorky's Line Drawings." Art in America (New York) 92 (May 2004), ill. in color, pp. 138–39, as "Summation".
Beredjiklian, Alexandre. Arshile Gorky: sept thèmes majeurs. Suresnes, France: Alphamédian & Johanet; Lisbon: Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007. Monograph, discussed pp. 71, 72, as "Capitulation".
Matttison, Robert S. Arshile Gorky: Works and Writings. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafica, 2009. Monograph, ill. in color, p. 133, as "Summation".
Theriault, Kim S. Rethinking Arshile Gorky. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. Monograph, pl. 12, ill. in color, as "Summation".
Anfam, David. "Metamorphoses." In Arshile Gorky: Virginia Summer 1946. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1, ill. in color, p. 6, as "Summation".
Gale, Matthew. Arshile Gorky: Enigma and Nostalgia. London: Tate Publishing, 2010. Exhibition catalogue (2009–10 Philadelphia), no. 46, ill. in color, p. 84, as "Summation".
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