Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné

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Provenance

Estate of Arshile Gorky (1948)

[Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (by December 1957)]

Estate of Arshile Gorky (February 28, 1962)

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, by exchange (January 20, 1966)

Martha Jackson Gallery Collection, New York (by 1971)

David Anderson Gallery, New York (c. 1980s)

Albright-Knox Art Gallery [now Buffalo AKG Art Museum], Buffalo, New York (1999)

Exhibitions

1941 San Francisco

San Francisco Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky, August 9–24, 1941, as "Xhorkom," dated 1935.

1951a New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition, January 5–February 18, 1951, no. 19, p. 46, as "Xhorkom". Traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, March 4–April 22, 1951; San Francisco Museum of Art, California, May 9–July 9, 1951.

1957e New York

Poindexter Gallery, New York, The 30s: Painting in New York, June 3–30, 1957, ill. in b/w, p. 6, as "Xhorkom".

1957f New York

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 33 Paintings by Arshile Gorky, December 2–28, 1957. (Exhibition catalogue: Sidney Janis Gallery 1957), no. 4, ill. in b/w, as "Image in Xhorkom," dated c. 1936.

1971 Wilmington

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, American Painting Since World War II, June 8–July 11, 1971, ill. in color, cover, as "Composition Xhorkom Summer," Martha Jackson Gallery Collection, New York.

1971 Tokyo

Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Martha Jackson Gallery Collection, September 17–29, 1971, no. 41, ill. in color, as "Image in Xhorkom Summer".

1973–74 College Park

University of Maryland Art Gallery, Department of Art, University of Maryland, College Park, The Private Collection of Martha Jackson, June 22–September 30, 1973, no. 29, ill. in b/w, p. 21, as "Image in Xhorkom Summer". Traveled to: Finch College Museum of Art, New York, October 16–November 25, 1973; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, January 6–February 10, 1974.

1987 Buffalo

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments, September 19–November 29, 1987, no. 3, ill. in color, p. 170, as "Image in Xhorkom Summer".

1993 Williamstown

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Third Williams Alumni Loan Exhibition, June 12–November 28, 1993.

1994d New York

Associated American Artists, New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, 1953 to 1979: Including Appel, Fontana, Francis, Gorky, Gottlieb, Hofmann, Jenkins, Jensen, Mitchell, Nevelson, Tapies, September 14–October 22, 1994, ill. in color, p. 6, as "Xhorkom–Summer".

1996 Nagoya

Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan, Abstract Expressionism, July 26–September 16, 1996, no. 16, ill. in color, p. 65, as "Xhorkom–Summer". Traveled to: Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, June 6–July 14, 1996; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan, September 29–November 17, 1996.

1997 Tokyo

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Founders and Heirs of the New York School, January 25–March 16, 1997, no. 14, ill. in color, p. 64, as "Xhorkom–Summer". Traveled to: Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan, April 5–May 25, 1997; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japan, June 28–August 3, 1997.

2012 Andover

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927–1942, September 21–December 31, 2012, p. 168; pl. 38, ill. in color, p. 96, as "Xhorkom–Summer". Traveled to: Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, State University of New York, January 29–April 28, 2012; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, June 9–August 19, 2012.

2019 Venice

Ca'Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice, Italy, Arshile Gorky: 1904–1948, May 8–September 22, 2019, ill. in color, p. 101, as "Image in Khorkom".

Literature

Coates 1951

Coates, Robert M. "The Art Galleries: Moderns—Past and Present." The New Yorker 26, no. 48 (January 20, 1951), discussed p. 62, as "Xhorkom".

Greenberg 1957

Greenberg, Clement. "New York painting only yesterday." Art News (New York) 56, no. 4 (Summer 1957), ill. in b/w, p. 59 as "Khorkon"; discussed p. 85, as "still-life".

Schwabacher 1957

Schwabacher, Ethel. Arshile Gorky. Introduction by Meyer Schapiro. New York: The Macmillan Company for the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1957. Monograph, fig. 19, ill. in b/w, p. 57, as "Image in Xhorkom".

Reiff 1959

Reiff, Robert F. "Review." Review of Arshile Gorky, by Ethel Schwabacher. College Art Journal (New York) 18, no. 2 (Winter 1959), discussed p. 191, as "Image of Xhorkom".

Sidney Janis Gallery 1962

Paintings by Arshile Gorky from 1929 to 1948. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1962. Exhibition catalogue (1962b New York), no. 31, ill. in b/w (in situ), as "View, Gorky Exhibition, December 1957".

Rosenberg 1962a

Rosenberg, Harold. Arshile Gorky: The Man, the Time, the Idea. New York: Horizon Press, 1962. Monograph, ill. in b/w, p. 51, as "Xhorkom".

Levy 1966

Levy, Julien. Arshile Gorky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966. Monograph, pl. 66. ill. in b/w, p. 90, as "Image in Xhorkom Summer".

Kaplan 1971

Kaplan, Ruth Jillya. "Art Museum's Exhibit Like a Bride With a Blush." Evening Journal (Wilmington, DE), June 11, 1971, discussed, p. 29, as "Composition Xhorkom Summer," dated 1936.

Rand 1981

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. 5–6, ill. in b/w, p. 79, as "Image in Xhorkom, Summer".

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. 43, as "Image in Xhorkom Summer".

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 pp. 69–73, as "Image in Khorkom".

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. 148, ill. in b/w, pp. 289–90, as "Image in Khorkom".

Seitz 1983

Seitz, William C. Abstract Expressionist Painting in America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press for the National Gallery of Art, 1983, fig. 60, ill. in color, as "Image in Xhorkom, Summer".

Kuspit 1987b

Kuspit, Donald. "Arshile Gorky: Images in Support of the Invented Self." In Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987. Exhibition catalogue, discussed p. 60, as "Image in Xhorkom Summer".

Rand 1991

Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols. Rev. ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Monograph, fig. 5–6, ill. in b/w, p. 86, as "Image in Xhorkom, Summer".

Stitelman 1993

Stitelman, Paul. "Pleasant surprises mark Williams show." Bennington Banner (VT), November 4, 1993, discussed, p. 14, as "Xhorkom Summer".

Balakian 1996

Balakian, Peter. "Arshile Gorky and the Armenian Genocide." Art in America (New York) 84 (February 1996), ill. in color, p. 63, as "Image in Xhorkom".

Herrera 2003

Herrera, Hayden. Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003, fig. 32, ill. in color, as "Image in Khorkom".

Beredjiklian 2007

Beredjiklian, Alexandre. Arshile Gorky: sept thèmes majeurs. Suresnes, France: Alphamédian & Johanet; Lisbon: Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007. Monograph, discussed p. 33, as "Khorkom".

Eisenthal 2023

Eisenthal, Jessica. "Speak to Me About Big Things, Now About Small Things: Arshile Gorky: A Study with Titles." Ursula (New York) 4, no. 9 (Fall/Winter 2023), ill. in color, p. 80; discussed, p. 81, as "Xhorkom".

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