Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné
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(Waterfall), c.  1943, P262. Verso: Inscription on the original center stretcher bar
Verso: Inscription on the original center stretcher bar
Photo: © Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, Paintings by Arshile Gorky from 1929 to 1948, February 5–March 3, 1962. (Exhibition catalogue: Sidney Janis Gallery 1962), no. 14, ill. in b/w, as "Waterfall".
University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Painting as Painting, February 18–April 1, 1968, no. 26, ill. in b/w, p. 17, as "Waterfall".
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Arshile Gorky: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection, October 4–November 25, 1979, no. 19, ill. in b/w, p. 33; p. 44, as "Waterfall".
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective, April 24–July 19, 1981, no. 128, ill. in b/w, p. 162, as "Waterfall". Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 12–November 6, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981–February 28, 1982.
Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York, 1939–1946, April 27–May 27, 1985, no. 10, ill. in b/w, p. 49, as "Waterfall". Traveled to: Cantor Art Gallery, Worcester, Massachusetts, April 27–May 27, 1985; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, June 9–July 28, 1985.
Museum Bochum, Germany, Armenien: Wiederentdeckung einer alten Kulturlandschaft, January 14–April 17, 1995, no. 323, ill. in color, p. 395, as "Wasserfall".
Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan, Abstract Expressionism, July 26–September 16, 1996, no. 17, ill. in color, p. 67, as "Waterfall". Traveled to: Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, June 6–July 14, 1996; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan, September 29–November 17, 1996.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, October 15, 2009–January 10, 2010. (Exhibition catalogue: Taylor 2009a), pl. 103, ill. in color, p. 264; p. 389, as "Waterfall". 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).
Hauser & Wirth, New York, Ardent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes, 1943–47, November 2–December 23, 2017. (Exhibition catalogue: Spender and Devaney 2017), ill. in color, pp. 118–19; p. 138, as "Waterfall".
Literature
Levy, Julien. Arshile Gorky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966. Monograph, pl. 89, ill. in b/w, p. 113, as "Waterfall".
Suenaga, Terukazu. "Mirror of Memory: Gorky's Cruel Change." Mizue (みづゑ) (Tokyo) 9, no. 894 (September 1979), ill. in color, p. 17, dated 1943.
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. 6–1, ill. in b/w, p. 85, as "Waterfall," dated 1943.
Karp, Diane. "Arshile Gorky: The Language of Art." Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1982, fig. 81, ill. in b/w, p. 249, as "Waterfall".
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. 82, as "Waterfall".
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. 262, ill. in b/w, pp. 410–11, as "Waterfall," dated 1943.
Spender, Matthew. "Origines et développement de l'oeuvre dessiné de Arshile Gorky / Quellen und Entwicklung von Arshile Gorkys zeichnerischem Werk." In Arshile Gorky: Œuvres sur Papier, 1929–1947 / Arbeiten auf Papier, 1929–1947, edited by Erika Billeter. Lausanne: Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 12, ill. in b/w, p. 30, as "Waterfall".
Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols. Rev. ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Monograph, fig. 6–1, ill. in b/w, p. 97, as "Waterfall".
Rand, Harry. "Gorky's Waterfalls (1943)." Artnews (New York) 96 (November 1997), ill. in color, p. 118, as "Waterfall".
Beredjiklian, Alexandre. Arshile Gorky: sept thèmes majeurs. Suresnes, France: Alphamédian & Johanet; Lisbon: Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007. Monograph, discussed pp. 40, 41, as "Cascade," dated 1943.
Matttison, Robert S. Arshile Gorky: Works and Writings. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafica, 2009. Monograph, ill. in color, p. 65, as "Waterfall".
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