University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Arshile Gorky: Drawings to Paintings, October 12–November 23, 1975. (Exhibition catalogue: University of Texas at Austin 1975), ill. in b/w, p. 14; p. 104, as "Study for Enigma," dated c. 1932. Traveled to: San Francisco Museum of Art, December 4, 1975–January 12, 1976; Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, State University of New York, February 10–March 14, 1976; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, April 4–May 9, 1976.

1981–82 New York

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective, April 24–July 19, 1981, no. 42, ill. in b/w, p. 96, as "Study for Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia". Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 12–November 6, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981–February 28, 1982.

1989–90 Madrid

Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Arshile Gorky, 1904–1948, October 17–December 23, 1989, no. 54, ill. in color, p. 135, as "Study for Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia". Traveled to: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, January 19–March 25, 1990.

1992–93b New York

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 20th Century Masters on Paper, December 10, 1992–January 23, 1993, ill. in b/w, as "Study for Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia".

1994c New York possibly

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 20th Century Masters on Paper, May 4–June 4, 1994, [not in brochure].

2003–04b New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings, November 20, 2003–February 15, 2004, no. 43, ill. in color, p. 99; p. 243, as "Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia". Traveled to: Menil Collection, Houston, March 5–May 9, 2004.

2009–10 Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, October 15, 2009–January 10, 2010. (Exhibition catalogue: Taylor 2009a), pl. 48, ill. in color, p. 204; p. 387, as "Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia". 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

Kaldis 1940 likely

Kaldis, Laurie Eglington. "French and American Moderns: Buffalo's Summer Show of Selections from the Janis and Hanley Collections." Artnews (New York) 38, no. 39 (August 17, 1940), discussed, p. 17, as "Night-time Nostalgia".

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. 4–1, ill. in b/w, p. 54, as "Study for Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia".

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. 28, as "Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia".

Karp 1982

Karp, Diane. "Arshile Gorky: The Language of Art." Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1982, fig. 58, ill. in b/w, p. 226, as "Study for Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia".

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. 55, ill. in b/w, as "Study for Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia".

Rand 1991

Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols. Rev. ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Monograph, fig. 4–1, ill. in b/w, p. 61, as "Study for Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia".

Spender 2010

Spender, Matthew. Una storia armena Vita di Arshile Gorky. Florence: Barbès Editore, 2010, ill. in b/w, p. 105; p. 427, as "Nighttime Enigma and Nostalgia".

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Theme: Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia