id: 138763
accession number: 1963.152
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Untitled, 1944. Arshile Gorky (American, c. 1904–1948). Oil and graphite on canvas; framed: 68 x 82 x 5 cm (26 3/4 x 32 5/16 x 1 15/16 in.); unframed: 49.5 x 63.5 cm (19 1/2 x 25 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1963.152 © The Arshile Gorky Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: Untitled
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creation date: 1944
creation date earliest: 1944
creation date latest: 1944
current location: 226B American Modern
creditline: Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art
copyright: © The Arshile Gorky Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: oil and graphite on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Arshile Gorky (American, c. 1904–1948) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 68 x 82 x 5 cm (26 3/4 x 32 5/16 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 49.5 x 63.5 cm (19 1/2 x 25 in.)
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inscription: Signed lower right: A. Gorky
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review (1963)
opening date: 1963-11-27T05:00:00
Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).
title: Arshile Gorky: Drawings to Paintings
opening date: 1975-10-12T04:00:00
Arshile Gorky: Drawings to Paintings. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (organizer) (October 12-November 23, 1975); The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (December 4, 1975-January 13, 1976); Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (February 10-March 14, 1976); Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY (April 4-May 9, 1976).
title: Images of the Mind
opening date: 1987-07-07T04:00:00
Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987).
title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum
opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00
Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Arshile Gorky 1904-1948: A Retrospective. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (April 24-July 19, 2981); Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (September 11-November 8, 1981); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (December 3, 1981-February 28, 1982).', 'opening_date': '1981-09-11T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Spirit of Surrealism. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 3-November 25, 1979).', 'opening_date': '1979-10-03T00:00:00'}
* {'description': '33 Paintings by Arshile Gorky. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (December 2-28, 1957).', 'opening_date': '1957-12-02T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Late Drawings by Gorky. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (September 28-October 24, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1959-09-28T00:00:00'}
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
"Special Issue on Gorky in Italian and English with Text by Toti Scialoja and Excerpts from Schwabacher 1957." Arti Visive (Summer 1957).
page number: Reproduced: no. 10
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Sidney Janis Gallery. Gorky. Sidney Janis Gallery, 1957.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 16
url: https://sova.si.edu/details/AAA.sidnjani#ref12
Coates, Robert M. "The Art Galleries." The New Yorker 33 (December 14, 1957).
page number: Mentioned: p. 142
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Sidney Janis Gallery. Late Drawings by Gorky. Sidney Janis Gallery, 1959.
page number: Reproduced: p. 15
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Rosenberg, Harold. Arshile Gorky: The Man, The Time, The Idea. New York: Horizon Press Inc., 1962.
page number: Reproduced: p. 81
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Henning, Edward B. "In Pursuit of Content." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50 (October 1963).
page number: Mentioned: p. 228; Reproduced: cover
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"Year in Review 1963." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 10 (December 1963).
page number: Reproduced: p. 295
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Levy, Julien. Arshile Gorky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966.
page number: Reproduced: plates 90, 103
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 198
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n222
Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969.
page number: Mentioned: p. 3
url: https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n3/
University of Texas at Austin. Arshile Gorky: Drawings to Paintings. Austin: University of Texas Art Museum, 1975.
page number: Mentioned: p. 104
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Reiff, Robert F. A Stylistic Analysis of Arshile Gorky's Art from 1943-1948. New York and London: Garland Press, 1977.
page number: Reproduced: p. 339
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 249
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n269
Henning, Edward B. The Spirit of Surrealism. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979.
page number: Mentioned: p. 140-141, 173; Reproduced: p. 141, fig. 82
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David, Sue, Derald Wing Sue, and Stanley Sue. Understanding Abnormal Behavior. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981.
page number: Reproduced: p. 476-477
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Waldman, Diane, and Arshile Gorky. Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948: A Retrospective. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1981.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 143
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Merritt, Robert. "Virginia Setting Spurred Gorky's Maturity." Richmond Times Dispatch, June 14, 1981.
page number: Reproduced
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Cullinan, Helen. "The First and Last of Arshile Gorky." The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), July 5, 1981.
page number: Mentioned
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Jordan, Jim M. "Gorky at the Guggenheim." Art Journal (College Art Association of America)41, no. 3 (August, 1981).
page number: Mentioned: p. 264
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Jordan, Jim M., and Robert Goldwater. The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue. New York and London: New York University Press, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 418
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Lader, Melvin P. Arshile Gorky. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985.
page number: Mentioned: p. 82
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Turner, Evan H. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Mentioned: p. 181
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Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: p. 89
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Litt, Steven. "Great Details in Great Work." The Plain Dealer January 9, 2011.
page number: Mentioned
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