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Provenance
Estate of Arshile Gorky (1948)
[Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (October 11, 1952)]
Estate of Arshile Gorky (c. 1962)
Harold Diamond, New York (June 1964)
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (June 8, 1964)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., by gift (May 17, 1966)
Exhibitions
1962b New York
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".1968 Austin
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".1979 Washington, D.C.
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".1981–82 New York
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, 1982.1985 Providence
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, 1985.1995 Bochum
Museum Bochum, Germany, Armenien: Wiederentdeckung einer alten Kulturlandschaft, January 14–April 17, 1995, no. 323, ill. in color, p. 395, as "Wasserfall".1996 Nagoya
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, 1996.2009–10 Philadelphia
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).2017 New York
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 1966
Levy, Julien. Arshile Gorky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966. Monograph, pl. 89, ill. in b/w, p. 113, as "Waterfall".Suenaga 1979
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 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. 6–1, ill. in b/w, p. 97, as "Waterfall," dated 1943.Karp 1982
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 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. 82, as "Waterfall".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. 262, ill. in b/w, pp. 410–11, as "Waterfall," dated 1943.Spender 1990a
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 1991
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 1997
Rand, Harry. "Gorky's Waterfalls (1943)." Artnews (New York) 96 (November 1997), ill. in color, p. 118, as "Waterfall".Beredjiklian 2007
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.Mattison 2009
Matttison, Robert S. Arshile Gorky: Works and Writings. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafica, 2009. Monograph, ill. in color, p. 65, as "Waterfall".Related Work
Theme: Landscape
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