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Provenance
The artist
Katherine O'Donnell Murphy, Lowell, Massachusetts (Spring 1924)
Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, Massachusetts, by gift (1976)
Exhibitions
1962–63b New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Arshile Gorky, 1904–1948, December 19, 1962–February 12, 1963. (Exhibition catalogue: Seitz 1962), no. 2, ill. in b/w, p. 10; p. 53, as "Park Street Church, Boston," dated c. 1925. Traveled to: Washington Gallery of Modern Art, D.C., March 12–April 14, 1963.1981–82 New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective, April 24–July 19, 1981, no. 1, ill. in b/w, p. 62, as "Park Street Church, Boston". Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 12–November 6, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981–February 28, 1982.2009–10 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, October 15, 2009–January 10, 2010. (Exhibition catalogue: Taylor 2009a), pl. 1, ill. in color, p. 160; p. 386, as "Park Street Church, Boston," [exhibited in Philadelphia only]. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, February 10–May 3, 2010 (Gale 2010); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June 6–September 20, 2010 (Gale 2010).Literature
Ashton 1963b
Ashton, Dore. "New York." Das Kunstwerk (Stuttgart, Germany) 16, no. 10 (April 1963), discussed p. 31.Levy 1966
Levy, Julien. Arshile Gorky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966. Monograph, pl. 36, ill. in b/w, p. 60, as "Park Street Church, Boston," dated c. 1925.Cullinan 1981
Cullinan, Helen. "The First and Last of Arshile Gorky." The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), July 5, 1981, discussed, as "Park Street Church, Boston".Jordan 1981
Jordan, Jim M. "Gorky at the Guggenheim." Art Journal (New York) 41, no. 3 (Fall 1981), discussed p. 261, as "Park Street Church".Larson 1981
Larson, Kay. "The Man Who Would Be Best." New York 14 (May 11, 1981), discussed p. 73.Waldman 1981
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. 16.Millard 1982
Millard, Charles W. "Arshile Gorky." The Hudson Review (New York) 35, no. 1 (Spring 1982), discussed, p. 105.Jordan 1982a
Jordan, Jim M. "The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: New Discoveries, New Sources, and Chronology." In The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, by Jim M. Jordan and Robert Goldwater. New York and London: New York University Press, 1982, discussed p. 18, as "Park Street Church, Boston".Jordan 1982b
Jordan, Jim M. "Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings." In The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, by Jim M. Jordan and Robert Goldwater. New York and London: New York University Press, 1982, no. 3, ill. in b/w, pp. 127–28, as "Park Street Church, Boston".Nercessian 1983
Nercessian, Nora N. "The Defeat of Arshile Gorky." Armenian Review (Watertown, MA) 36, no. 1 (Spring 1983), discussed p. 91, as "Park Street Church in Boston".Lader 1985
Lader, Melvin P. Arshile Gorky. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. Monograph, fig. 8, ill. in color, p. 17, as "Park Street Church, Boston".Rand 1986
Rand, Harry. "Gorky In Virginia." Arts in Virginia 26, no. 1 (1986), fig. 1, ill. in b/w, p. 4, as "Park Street Church, Boston".Spender 1999
Spender, Matthew. From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1999, ill. in b/w, p. 63, as "Park Street Church, Boston".Herrera 2003
Herrera, Hayden. Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003, fig. 62, ill. in b/w, as "Park Street Church".Fagan 2009
Fagan, Sarah E. "Strange, Quick and Beautiful: A Look at the Grand Unveiling of the Mina Boehm Metzger Collection; Drawings and Paintings by Arshile Gorky." Artscope (Quincy, MA) 4 (September–October 2009), ill. in color, p. 12, as "Park Street Church, Boston".Mattison 2009
Matttison, Robert S. Arshile Gorky: Works and Writings. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafica, 2009. Monograph, ill. in color, p. 26, as "Park Street Church, Boston".Alberro 2010
Alberro, Alexander. "The Apprenticeship of Arshile Gorky: On Arshile Gorky at the Philadelphia Museum of Art." Texte zur Kunst (Cologne) 77 (March 2010), discussed pp. 146, 208, as "Park Street Church, Boston".Spender 2010
Spender, Matthew. Una storia armena Vita di Arshile Gorky. Florence: Barbès Editore, 2010, ill. in b/w, p. 75; p. 427, as "Park St. Church, Boston".Spender 2018a
Spender, Matthew, ed. Arshile Gorky: The Plow and the Song: A Life in Letters and Documents. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2018, ill. in color, p. 34, as "Park Street Church, Boston".Devaney and Belli 2019
Devaney, Edith, and Gabriella Belli. "Chronology / Cronologia." In Arshile Gorky: 1904–1948. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2019. Exhibition catalogue, ill. in color, p. 217, as "Park Street Church, Boston / Chiesa di Park Street, Boston".Notes
Watermark / Stamp: Wadsworth, Howland & Co.
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