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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: 1963-11-26T05:00:00
Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 26, 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
* 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).
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PROVENANCE
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During a period of violent upheaval in the Ottoman Empire, Gorky escaped the Armenian genocide by Turkish troops and emigrated to the United States. The trauma of this experience deeply impacted his subsequent career as an artist. In the year he painted Untitled, he wrote to his sister, “it is as if some ancient Armenian spirit within me moves my hand to create so far from our homeland the shapes of nature we loved…. Our beautiful Armenia which we lost and which I will repossess in my art.”
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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.
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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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