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Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné

Catalogue Entry

P349
(Summer Snow)
1947
Oil on canvas
30 1/2 x 36 in. (77.5 x 91.4 cm)
Front, upper right: A. Gorky / 47 / [paraph]
Reverse not seen
Private collection
Provenance
Estate of Arshile Gorky (1948)
[Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (by October 1957)]
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (June 22, 1960)
Mario Tazzoli, Turin, Italy (February 8, 1961)
[Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan (by 1964)]
Barbara and Howard Wise, New York (January 30, 1964)
[Robert Miller Gallery, New York (January 14, 1994)]
Private collection (1998)
[C&M Arts, New York (2002)]
Private collection (2003)
Exhibitions
1957f New York
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 33 Paintings by Arshile Gorky, December 2–28, 1957. (Exhibition catalogue: Sidney Janis Gallery 1957), no. 34, ill. in b/w, as "Summer Snow".
1961 Milan
Galleria Pasquale Falanga, Milan, Mostre tra l'antico e il moderno, May 1961.
1976–77 New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Acquisition Priorities: Aspects of Postwar Painting in America; Including Arshile Gorky: Works 1944–1948, October 15, 1976–January 16, 1977, no. 5, ill. in b/w, as "Summer Snow".
1977c New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 20th-Century American Art from Friends' Collections, July 27–September 27, 1977, as "Summer Snows".
1981 Cologne
Rheinhallen, Cologne, Westkunst. Zeitgenössische Kunst nach 1939, May 30–August 16, 1981, no. 240, ill. in b/w, p. 373, as "Summer snow (Sommer-Schnee)".
1995–96 Fort Worth / Buffalo
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (organizers), Arshile Gorky: The Breakthrough Years, 1995–96, no. 22, ill. in color, p. 133, as "Summer Snow". 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.
1997 Tokyo
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Founders and Heirs of the New York School, January 25–March 16, 1997, no. 17, ill. in color, p. 67, as "Summer Snow". Traveled to: Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan, April 5–May 25, 1997; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japan, June 28–August 3, 1997.
2011b New York
Gagosian Gallery, New York, Arshile Gorky: 1947, May 6–July 1, 2011, as "Summer Snow".
Literature
Devree 1957c
Devree, Howard. "Diverse Moderns: Growth of the Niarchos Collection—Gorky in Retrospect—Others." New York Times, December 8, 1957, discussed, sec. 2, p. 24, as "Summer Snow".
Sidney Janis Gallery 1959
Late Drawings by Gorky. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1959. Exhibition catalogue (1959b New York), no. 38, ill. in b/w (in situ), as "Summer Snow," in "Gallery View, Gorky Exhibition, December 1957".
Camesasca 1961
Camesasca, Ettore. "'Tra l'antico e il moderno': Una galleria milanese ha allestito tre interessanti esposizioni in una." Le Arti (Milan), no. 3-4 (April 1961), ill. in b/w (in situ), p. 39, as "Summer Show".
Reiff 1961
Reiff, Robert F. "A Stylistic Analysis of Arshile Gorky's Art from 1943–1948." Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, New York, 1961, fig. 94, ill. in b/w, p. 372, as "Summer Snow".
Hunter 1964
Hunter, Sam. "Abstract Expressionism Then—and Now." Canadian Art (Toronto) 21 (September 1964), ill. in b/w, p. 266, as "Summer Snow".
Levy 1966
Levy, Julien. Arshile Gorky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966. Monograph, pl. 199, ill. in b/w, p. 223, as "Summer Snow".
Jordan 1969
Jordan, Jim M. Gorky: Drawings. New York: M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., 1969. Exhibition catalogue (1969e New York), fig. 9, ill. in b/w, p. 15, as "Summer Snow".
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. 12–13, ill. in b/w, p. 193, as "Summer Snow".
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. 349, ill. in b/w, pp. 528–29, as "Summer Snow".
Rand 1991
Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols. Rev. ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Monograph, fig. 12–13, ill. in b/w, p. 215, as "Summer Snow".
Balakian 1996
Balakian, Peter. "Arshile Gorky and the Armenian Genocide." Art in America (New York) 84 (February 1996), discussed p. 59, as "Summer Snow".
Notes

Commentary

Although the title, Summer Snow, is identified as lifetime in Jim M. Jordan's catalogue raisonné, there is no known extant documentation confirming its origin with the artist and we have therefore designated it as posthumous.1

1. Jim M. Jordan, "Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings," in Jim M. Jordan and Robert Goldwater, The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue (New York and London: New York University Press, 1982), 528.

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