(Housatonic), 1943, D0285 | Catalogue entry | Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné

Provenance

The artist

Julien Levy Gallery, New York (December 21, 1944)

Julien Levy, Bridgewater, Connecticut (1949)

[Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (by September 1955)]

Lucille and Norton Simon, Los Angeles (by October 1955)

Hunt Foods & Industries Museum of Art, Fullerton, California, by transfer (by 1967)

Norton Simon Inc. Museum of Art, Fullerton, California, by transfer (1968)

[Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art, May 3, 1974, lot 505]

Allan Stone Gallery, New York (May 3, 1974)

Allan Stone Gallery, New York; Clarence Day, Memphis, Tennessee (June 1974)

Estate of Clarence Day (2009)

[Sotheby's, New York, Contemporary Art Evening Auction, November 9, 2010, lot 23]

Present whereabouts unknown

Exhibitions

1945a New York possibly

Julien Levy Gallery, New York, Arshile Gorky, March 6–31, 1945. (Exhibition brochure: Breton 1945b).

1951a New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition, January 5–February 18, 1951, no. 77, p. 48. Traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, March 4–April 22, 1951; San Francisco Museum of Art, California, May 9–July 9, 1951.

1955c New York

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, Drawings for Principal Paintings by Gorky, September 26–October 22, 1955, no. 1, ill. in b/w, invitation card, as "Housatonic".

1965a Los Angeles

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Special Exhibition for the College Art Association, January 18–April 16, 1965.

1967a Irvine

University of California, Irvine, A Selection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Works from The Hunt Foods and Industries Museum of Art Collection, March 7–22, 1967, no. 15, ill. in b/w, p. 35, as "Housatonic". Traveled to: University of California at Davis, April 3–28, 1967; University of California at Riverside, May 10–30, 1967; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, July 7–October 1, 1967.

1969e New York

M. Knoedler & Co. Inc, New York, Gorky: Drawings, November 25–December 27, 1969. (Exhibition catalogue: Jordan 1969), no. 64, ill. in b/w, p. 35; p. 58, as "The Housatonic".

1976a New York

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Twentieth Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, January 23–March 28, 1976, no. 82, as "The Housatonic". Traveled to: Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, May 27–July 11, 1976; Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, July 18–August 29, 1976.

1981–82 New York

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective, April 24–July 19, 1981, no. 134, ill. in b/w, p. 167, as "The Housatonic". Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 12–November 6, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981–February 28, 1982.

1998b New York

Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, Master Drawings of the Twentieth Century, May 5–June 5, 1998, no. 16, ill. in color, ill. p. 43, as "The Housatonic".

2003–04b New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings, November 20, 2003–February 15, 2004, no. 70, ill. in color, p. 135; p. 243, as "Housatonic". Traveled to: Menil Collection, Houston, March 5–May 9, 2004.

Literature

Schwabacher 1957

Schwabacher, Ethel. Arshile Gorky. Introduction by Meyer Schapiro. New York: The Macmillan Company for the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1957. Monograph, fig. 40, ill. in b/w, p. 90, as "The Housatonic".

Sidney Janis Gallery 1957

33 Paintings by Arshile Gorky. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1957. Exhibition catalogue (1957f New York), no. 37, ill, in b/w (in situ), as "Gallery View, Gorky Exhibition, September 1955".

Johnson 1967

Johnson, Charles. "Art Views: Visit with a Happy Family." Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA), April 23, 1967, ill. in b/w, sec. L, p. 14, as "Housatonic".

Jordan 1976

Jordan, Jim. M. "Arshile Gorky at Crooked Run Farm." Arts Magazine (New York) 50, no. 7 (March 1976), discussed pp. 102–103, 103 fn20, as "Housatonic".

Notes

Watermark / Stamp: Arches

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