id: 138763 accession number: 1963.152 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.152 updated: 2020-11-04 20:54:07.959000 Untitled, 1944. Arshile Gorky (American, 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 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Untitled title in original language: series: series in original language: 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: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: America, 20th century technique: oil and graphite on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Arshile Gorky (American, 1904-1948) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: A. Gorky translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1963) opening date: 1963-11-26T05:00:00 Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 26, 1963-January 5, 1964). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * 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). * The Spirit of Surrealism. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 3-November 25, 1979). * Arshile Gorky: Drawings to Paintings. University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (October 12-November 23, 1975); San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (December 4, 1975-January 12, 1976); Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY (February 10-March 14, 1976); Museum of Art, Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY (April 4-May 9, 1976). * 33 Paintings by Arshile Gorky. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (December 2-28, 1957). * Late Drawings by Gorky. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (September 28-October 24, 1959). --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: After immigrating to the United States in 1920 and renaming himself after the Russian writer Maksim Gorky, Arshile Gorky set out to retrace the evolution of modern art. Almost wholly self-taught, he painted in various styles, mimicking Impressionism, Cubism, and especially the artistic style of Pablo Picasso. As he matured, his art combined the magical, dreamlike elements typical of Surrealism with the exuberance and emotional charge that would later be found in abstract expressionism. Around 1942, Gorky achieved the style for which he is most recognized. Untitled, with its swiftly drawn lines, sensuous biomorphic shapes, and spontaneous, luminous washes of color is an exceptional example of this period. In a letter to his sister, sent the year Untitled was painted, Gorky wrote: "It is as if some ancient Armenian spirit within me moves my hand to create . . .the shapes of nature we loved in the gardens . . . of our family in Khorkom. Our beautiful Armenia which we lost and which I will repossess in my art." --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: 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 url: Sidney Janis Gallery. Late Drawings by Gorky. Sidney Janis Gallery, 1959. page number: Reproduced: p. 15 url: Rosenberg, Harold. Arshile Gorky: The Man, The Time, The Idea. New York: Horizon Press Inc., 1962. page number: Reproduced: p. 81 url: 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 url: "Year in Review 1963." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 10 (December 1963). page number: Reproduced: p. 295 url: Levy, Julien. Arshile Gorky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966. page number: Reproduced: plates 90, 103 url: 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 University of Texas at Austin. Arshile Gorky: Drawings to Paintings. Austin: University of Texas Art Museum, 1975. page number: Mentioned: p. 104 url: 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 url: 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 url: David, Sue, Derald Wing Sue, and Stanley Sue. Understanding Abnormal Behavior. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 476-477 url: Waldman, Diane, and Arshile Gorky. Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948: A Retrospective. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1981. page number: Reproduced: fig. 143 url: Merritt, Robert. "Virginia Setting Spurred Gorky's Maturity." Richmond Times Dispatch, June 14, 1981. page number: Reproduced url: Cullinan, Helen. "The First and Last of Arshile Gorky." The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), July 5, 1981. page number: Mentioned url: Jordan, Jim M. "Gorky at the Guggenheim." Art Journal (College Art Association of America)41, no. 3 (August, 1981). page number: Mentioned: p. 264 url: 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 url: Lader, Melvin P. Arshile Gorky. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. page number: Mentioned: p. 82 url: Turner, Evan H. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Mentioned: p. 181 url: 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 url: Litt, Steven. "Great Details in Great Work." The Plain Dealer January 9, 2011. page number: Mentioned url: --- IMAGES