Harvard Art Museums > 1993.230: Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia; verso: Untitled Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia; verso: Untitled (Arshile Gorky) , 1993.230,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 03, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/303410. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1993.230 People Arshile Gorky, American ( Vosdanig Adoian in Khorkom (present-day Dilkaya), Van Province, Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey) 1904 - 1948 Sherman, CT) Title Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia; verso: Untitled Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1934 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/303410 Physical Descriptions Medium Black, brown, and red-brown ink on off-white wove card prepared irregularly with spattered blue-gray watercolor(?), areas of scraping throughout; verso: graphite and black ink Dimensions 57.5 x 76.6 cm (22 5/8 x 30 3/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks blind stamp: STRATHMORE DRAWING BOARD Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1955, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1993. NOTE: Provenance information from the curatorial file. 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 1993 Object Number 1993.230 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Robert Taylor, "Venice Observed, Show in Dramatic Fogg Display", The Boston Herald (May 13, 1956), p. 19, p. 19 Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997 Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 52, fig. 122 (upside down), pp. 76, 126, 371, 375, 381 Exhibition History [Benefit exhibition for the Boston Arts Festival], Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, 05/08/1956 - 05/29/1956 New York School: From the First Generation, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1975 - 01/06/1976 Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
