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Provenance
Exhibitions
Julien Levy Gallery, New York, Arshile Gorky, March 6–31, 1945. (Exhibition brochure: Breton 1945b), no. 6, as "They Will Take My Island".
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition, January 5–February 18, 1951, no. 35, p. 47, as "They Will Take My Island" (exhibited in New York only). Traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, March 4–April 22, 1951; San Francisco Museum of Art, California, May 9–July 9, 1951.
Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, Modern Works Lent by Distinguished Artists, Writers, Architects, February 28–March 25, 1961, as "They Will Take My Island".
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for the United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C., Vanguard American Painting, 1961–62, no. 26, ill. in b/w, as "They Will Take My Island," lent by Jeanne Reynal, New York. Traveled to: Galerie Würthle, Vienna, June 19–July 18, 1961; Zwerglgarten, Salzburg, July 10–August 31, 1961; Kalemegdan Pavilion, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, September 15–October 1, 1961; Umetnicki Pavilion, Skoplje, Yugoslavia, October 14–29, 1961; Moderna Galerija, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, November 9–20, 1961; Umetnostna Galerija, Maribor, Yugoslavia, November 25–December 4, 1961; Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, December 11, 1961–January 7, 1962; Rijeka, Yugoslavia, January 3–31, 1962; American Embassy, USIS Gallery, London, March 1–15, 1962; Hessiche Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany, April 14–May 13, 1962; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May 25–July 5, 1965.
XXXI Biennale di Venezia: Internazionale d'Arte, U.S. Pavilion, Venice, Italy, Arshile Gorky, June 16–October 7, 1962, no. 23, ill. in b/w, pl. 92; p. 114, as "Vogliono prendere la mia isola," dated 1947.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Arshile Gorky, 1904–1948, December 19, 1962–February 12, 1963. (Exhibition catalogue: Seitz 1962), no. 70, p. 54, as "They Will Take My Island". Traveled to: Washington Gallery of Modern Art, D.C., March 12–April 14, 1963.
Arts Council of Great Britain, London (organizer), Arshile Gorky, Paintings and Drawings / Arshile Gorky: Schilderijen en Tekeningen, 1965, no. 74, as "Zij zullen mij mijn eiland ontnemen / They will take my island". Traveled to: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, May 22–June 27, 1965; Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, July 24–September 5, 1965 (Museum Boymans van Beuingen 1965).
Arts Council of Great Britain, London (organizer), Tate Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, April 2–May 2, 1965, no. 62, as "They Will Take My Island".
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective, April 24–July 19, 1981, no. 181, ill. in color, p. 206, as "They Will Take My Island". Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 12–November 6, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981–February 28, 1982.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (organizers), Arshile Gorky: The Breakthrough Years, 1995–96, no. 10, ill. in color, p. 109, as "They Will Take My Island". Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 7–September 17, 1995; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, October 13–December 31, 1995; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, January 13–March 17, 1996.
Literature
Greenberg, Clement. "Art." The Nation (New York) 160 (March 24, 1945), discussed p. 343, as "They Will Take My Island".
Jewell, Edward Alden. "Art Old and New." New York Times, March 11, 1945, discussed, p. X8, as "They Will Take My Island".
"Julien Levy Gallery (advertisement)." View (New York) 5, no. 1 (March 1945), ill. in b/w, p. 44, as "They Will Take My Island".
Greenberg, Clement. "Art." The Nation (New York) 162 (May 4, 1946), discussed p. 552, as "Island".
Loftus, John. "Arshile Gorky: A Monograph." M.A. Thesis, Columbia University, New York, 1952, pl. XXXIII, ill. in b/w, erroneously as The Delicate Game.
"Special issue on Gorky in Italian and English with text by Toti Scialoja and excerpts from Schwabacher 1957." Arti Visive 6–7 (Summer 1957), no. 13, ill. in b/w, as "They Will Take My Island".
Schwabacher, Ethel. Arshile Gorky. Introduction by Meyer Schapiro. New York: The Macmillan Company for the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1957. Monograph, discussed p. 115, as "They Will Take My Island".
Reiff, Robert F. "A Stylistic Analysis of Arshile Gorky's Art from 1943–1948." Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, New York, 1961, fig. 76, ill. in b/w, p. 354, as "They Will Take My Island".
Rosenberg, Harold. Arshile Gorky: The Man, the Time, the Idea. New York: Horizon Press, 1962. Monograph, ill. in b/w, p. 83, as "They Will Take My Island".
Levy, Julien. Arshile Gorky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966. Monograph, pl. 97, ill. in color, p. 121, as "They Will Take My Island".
Foster, Stephen C. "Making a Movement Modern: The Role of the Avant-Garde Critic." Art International (Paris) 20 (October–November 1976), discussed p. 60, as "They Will Take My Island".
Jordan, Jim. M. "Arshile Gorky at Crooked Run Farm." Arts Magazine (New York) 50, no. 7 (March 1976), discussed p. 100, as "They Will Take My Island".
"Gallery Gains." Daily Sentinel (Scottsboro, AL), December 14, 1980, discussed, p. 13, as "They Will Take My Island".
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. 54, as "They Will Take My Island".
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. 86–87, as "They Will Take My Island".
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. 288, ill. in b/w, pp. 443–44, as "They Will Take My Island".
Lader, Melvin P. Arshile Gorky. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. Monograph, fig. 87, ill. in color, p. 88, as "They Will Take My Island".
Corrin, Lisa. "Toward Armenia: Notes of a Journey." In Arshile Gorky: 1904–1948. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 4, ill. in b/w, p. 176, as "They Will Take My Island".
Matossian, Nouritza. "Arshile Gorky's Lost World: A Personal Quest for the Armenian Sources of Gorky's Art." Modern Painters (New York) 11 (Winter 1998), ill. in color, p. 75, as "They Will Take My Island".
Matossian, Nouritza. Black Angel: The Life of Arshile Gorky. London: Chatto & Windus, 1998, pl. 8, ill. in color, as "They Will Take My Island".
Spender, Matthew. From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1999, ill. in b/w, p. 293, as "They Will Take My Island".
Herrera, Hayden. Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003, fig. 162, ill. in color, as "They Will Take My Island".
FitzGerald, Michael. "Picasso and American Art: Chapter Four (1940–1949)." In Picasso and American Art. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 91, ill. in b/w, p. 227; discussed p. 230, as "They Will Take My Island".
Matttison, Robert S. Arshile Gorky: Works and Writings. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafica, 2009. Monograph, ill. in color, p. 89, as "They Will Take My Island".
Spender, Matthew. Una storia armena Vita di Arshile Gorky. Florence: Barbès Editore, 2010, ill. in b/w, p. 331; p. 428, as "They Will Take My Island".
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