Catalogue Entry

The artist

Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (c. 1941–42)

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., by gift (May 17, 1966)

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Two Lyric Abstractionists: Gorky, Works of the Middle Period / Trökes, Recent Gouaches and Drawings, March 31–April 24, 1954, no. 45, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., The Golden Door: Artist Immigrants of America 1876–1976, May 20–October 20, 1976, no. 66, ill. in b/w, p. 195, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".

Fresno Art Museum and the Armenian Museum (organizers), Fresno Art Museum, California, Vosdanik Manouk Adoian a.k.a. Arshile Gorky, April 7–June 4, 2006, no. 7, ill. in color, p. 25; p. 50, as "Portrait of Vartoosh," dated c. 1933–34.

Coates, Robert M. "The Art Galleries: Moderns—Past and Present." The New Yorker 26, no. 48 (January 20, 1951), discussed p. 60, as "portrait of his sister Vartoosh".

Genauer, Emily. "Art and Artists: The Whitney's Memorial Exhibit and the Arshile Gorky Tragedy." New York Herald Tribune, January 7, 1951, discussed p. 9, "The earliest picture in the show, a 1922 portrait of his sister, is straight blue-period Picasso."

Devree, Howard. "Whitney to Offer Arshile Gorky Art: Memorial Show of Paintings and Drawings Opens at the Museum Tomorrow." New York Times, January 4, 1951, discussed, p. 27, as "a portrait of his sister dated 1922".

Devree, Howard. "A Memorable Year: The Modern Movement at Its 1913 Pitch—The Whitney's Gorky Memorial." New York Times, January 7, 1951, discussed, sec. 2, p. 9, as "the flatly realistic portrait of a sister in 1922".

Schwabacher, Ethel. Arshile Gorky. Introduction by Meyer Schapiro. New York: The Macmillan Company for the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1957. Monograph, fig. 1, ill. in b/w, p. 24, as "Portrait of Vartoosh," dated 1922.

Barilli, Renato. "La Pittura di Arshile Gorky." La Biennale 43 (April–June 1961), ill. in b/w, p. 13, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".

Reiff, Robert F. "A Stylistic Analysis of Arshile Gorky's Art from 1943–1948." Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, New York, 1961, fig. 2, ill. in b/w, p. 280, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".

Lichtblau, Charlotte. "Gorky retrospective." Philadelphia Inquirer, December 23, 1962, ill. in b/w, p. 6, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".

Cheshire, Maxine. "To Broaden Knowledge of Modern Art New Frontier Wives Give Guided Tours." The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.), March 14, 1963, ill. in b/w, p. E1, installation photograph.

Levy, Julien. Arshile Gorky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966. Monograph, pl. 26, ill. in color, p. 50, as "Portrait of Vartoosh," dated c. 1933.

Suenaga, Terukazu. "Mirror of Memory: Gorky's Cruel Change." Mizue (みづゑ) (Tokyo) 9, no. 894 (September 1979), ill. in b/w, p. 39, dated 1933.

Morgan, S. "Becoming Arshile Gorky." Artscribe (London), no. 31 (October 1981), ill. in b/w, p. 19, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".

Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols. Montclair, NJ: Allanheld, Osmun & Co. Publishers Inc., and London: George Prior Associated Publishers Ltd., 1981. Monograph, fig. 2–1, ill. in b/w, p. 13, as "Portrait of Vartoosh," dated c. 1932.

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. 33, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".

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 pp. 49–51, 56, 76, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".

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. 111, ill. in b/w, pp. 238–39, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".

Lader, Melvin P. Arshile Gorky. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. Monograph, fig. 53, ill. in color, p. 58, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".

Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols. Rev. ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Monograph, fig. 2–1, ill. in b/w, p. 15, as "Portrait of Vartoosh," dated c. 1932.

Herrera, Hayden. Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003, fig. 25, ill. in color, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".

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 "Portrait of Vartoosh".

Matttison, Robert S. Arshile Gorky: Works and Writings. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafica, 2009. Monograph, ill. in color, p. 15, as "Portrait of Vartoosh," dated c. 1933–34.

Theriault, Kim S. Rethinking Arshile Gorky. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. Monograph, pl. 5, ill. in color, as "Portrait of Vartoosh," dated 1933–34.

Agee, William C. "Graham, Gorky, de Kooning: A New Classicism, an Alternate Modernism." In American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927–1942. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 44, ill. in color, p. 139, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".