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Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné

Catalogue Entry

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Provenance
The artist
William and Lisa Muschenheim, New York (1931)
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (1962)
E.V. Thaw & Co., New York (1976)
E.V. Thaw & Co., New York; Acquavella Galleries Inc., New York (December 1980)
Private collection (July 1984)
[Salander-O'Reilly Galleries Inc., New York]
Private collection, Paris
[Salander-O'Reilly Galleries Inc., New York (by 1994)]
Myron Kunin Collection of American Art, Minneapolis (February 1994)
Exhibitions
1980b New York
Hirschl & Adler Galleries Inc, New York, The Artist in the Park, April 29–May 30, 1980, no. 41, as "Central Park at Dusk".
2005–06 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, In Private Hands: 200 Years of American Painting, October 1, 2005–January 8, 2006, no. 47, ill. in color, ill. p. 139, as "Central Park at Dusk".
2009–10 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, October 15, 2009–January 10, 2010. (Exhibition catalogue: Taylor 2009a), pl. 92, ill. in color, p. 253; p. 388, as "Central Park at Dusk," dated 1936–42. 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).
2024c New York
Hauser & Wirth, New York, Arshile Gorky: New York City, September 4–October 26, 2024, no. 9, as "Untitled (Sunset in Central Park)".
Literature
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. 46, as "Sunset in Central Park".
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. 94, ill. in b/w, pp. 223–24, as "Sunset in Central Park".
Kolbe 2009
Kolbe, Regina. "Dreams Form The Bristles Of The Artist's Brush: Arshile Gorky, The Last Great Surrealist." Antiques and The Arts Weekly (Newton, CT) (October 23, 2009), ill. in color, p. 69, as "Central Park at Dusk".
Wallis 2009
Wallis, Jonathan. "Perspective: Arshile Gorky Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art." Critical Mass (blog for City Paper, Philadelphia), November 16, 2009, ill. in color, as "Central Park at Dusk".
Wilkin 2024
Wilkin, Karen. "An Enigmatic Evolution." Wall Street Journal (New York), October 8, 2024, ill. in color, as "Untitled (Sunset in Central Park)".
Notes
(Sunset in Central Park), 1931, P094. An earlier state of the painting, known only from a photograph in the Whitney Museum of American Art Archives.
An earlier state of the painting, known only from a photograph in the Whitney Museum of American Art Archives.
Photo: Courtesy of the Frances Mulhall Achilles Library and Archives, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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Theme: Landscape