1977.176: Untitled

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1977.176

People

Arshile Gorky, American ( Vosdanig Adoian in Khorkom (present-day Dilkaya), Van Province, Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey) 1904 - 1948 Sherman, CT)

Title

Untitled

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1944

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/309146

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite and colored wax crayons with stumping on off-white wove paper edged with lavender paper on left and right sides

Dimensions

actual: 50.7 x 66.2 cm (19 15/16 x 26 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r.: A. Gorky / 44
• inscription: verso, graphite, lower right: 75--
• inscription: verso, graphite, lower right: J. LEVY
• inscription: verso, graphite, lower left: 7674
• gallery label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and handwritten: No. 3353

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Possibly Julian Levy, New York, New York. [Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1957, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1977.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell

Copyright

© 2020 The Arshile Gorky Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

1977

Object Number

1977.176

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

A strip of lavender paper has been added at the left and right edges, perhaps at the time of manufacture of the sheet-- seams are smooth. Pinholes at all corners.

Publication History

• Eila Kokkinen, Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters, exh. cat., Hayden Gallery (Cambridge, MA, 1975), cat. 11
• Deborah Wye, "Gorky Drawing Enters Fogg Collection", Fogg Art Museum Newsletter, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, April 1978), vol. 15, no. 3, p. 5, repr.
• Timothy Anglin Burgard, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1994), pp. 6, 12, cat. 74
• Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 54, fig. 65, pp. 96, 133, 371, 377, 381
• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., Knoedler & Co. Inc. (New York, 2003), cat. no. 5, repr. (color)
• Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 218, ill.

Exhibition History

• Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters, Hayden Gallery, Cambridge, 02/21/1975 - 03/26/1975
• New York School: From the First Generation, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1975 - 01/06/1976
• 20th Century American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/07/1976 - 05/19/1976
• American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/01/1994 - 12/30/1994
• Modern Art for Harvard: Prints and Drawings Acquired through the Generosity of Frederick B. and Virginia H. Deknatel, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/31/1995 - 08/06/1995
• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 11/14/2003 - 01/24/2004
• HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/23/2005 - 07/31/2005

Subjects and Contexts

• Collection Highlights

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