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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.227
People
Arshile Gorky, American ( Vosdanig Adoian in Khorkom (present-day Dilkaya), Van Province, Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey) 1904 - 1948 Sherman, CT)
Title
Flowers
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1943
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305882

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and colored wax crayons with extensive stumping, erasure and working with a sharp tool, on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
35.4 x 56.4 cm (13 15/16 x 22 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: A. Gorky / 43
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: Jk[?]-5
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 311969
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: Pinler[?]
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 19 1/2 x 26 1/2 / 14 1/2 x 22 1/4 / V 41[?]
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 175-
  • inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: AB
  • inscription: verso, lower left, black crayon: JL
  • inscription: verso, upper left, black ballpoint ink: 1 [encircled]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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, 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
1993.227
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Robert F. Reiff, "A Stylistic Analysis of Arshile Gorky's Art From 1943-1948" (Thesis, Columbia University, 1961), Unpublished, p. 42-43, 64, 70-74, repr. p. 311.
  • James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), p. 78, ill. (color)
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 53, fig. 38 (color), pp. 76, 371, 377
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., Knoedler & Co. Inc. (New York, 2003), cat. no. 4, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

  • New York School: From the First Generation, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1975 - 01/06/1976
  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1940 to 2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/2000 - 08/27/2000
  • 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
  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #2: CB30 Photography and Society & HAA172w American Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/2009 - 01/10/2010
  • American Art and Modernity, 1865–1965, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2012 - 01/19/2013

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