Resources
Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, 1945, no. 9.
New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1951, no. 31.
New York, New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 1957, no. 14.
New York, New York, Museum of Modern Art, Arshile Gorky, 1962, no. 61, p. 32.
Venice, Italy, Venice Biennale - American Pavilion, May 1962, no. 11.
London, England, Tate Gallery, Gorky, Apr. 1 - 2 May 1965. Cat. no. 55 (Brussels, Belgium, Palais des Beaux Arts, May 22 - June 27, 1965; Rotterdam, Netherlands, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, July 24 - Sept. 5, 1965).
Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments, Sept. 19 - Nov. 29, 1987.
Madrid, Spain, Sala de Exposiciones, Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Gorky Retrospective, Oct. 17 - Dec. 1989 (London, England, White Chapel Art Gallery, Jan. 19 - Mar. 25, 1990).
New York, New York, Gagosian Gallery, Arshile Gorky: A 90th Birthday Commemoration, Jan. 11 - Mar. 5, 1994.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Arshile Gorky: The Breakthrough Years, National Gallery of Art, May 14 - Sept. 17, 1995; Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Oct. 13 - Dec. 31, 1995; Fort Worth, Texas, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Jan. 13 - Mar. 17, 1996).
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Collection Highlights: 1945 To The Present, Sept. 12, 1996 - June 1, 1997.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, Mar. 4 - May 5, 1999.
Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Art Museum, Vital Forms: American Art in the Atomic Age, Oct. 20, 2002 - July 20, 2003.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, International Abstraction: Making Painting Real, May 2, 2003 - February 29, 2004.
Switzerland, Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Action Painting - Pollock and Movement in Art, Jan.18, 2008 - May 12, 2008.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, Oct. 11, 2009 - Jan. 3, 2010 (London, England, Tate Modern, February 3 - May 9, 2010).
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modernism and Craft, Part 1, Mar. 16, 2013 - Mar. 16, 2014.
Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. C. Bagley Wright: Twentieth Century American and European Paintings and Sculpture, Nov. 8 – Dec. 6, 1964, no. 14.
Published ReferencesSchwabacher, Ethel. "Arshile Gorky." New York, 1957; p. 48.
"Collection of Mr. and Mrs. C. Bagley Wright: Twentieth Century American and European Paintings and Sculpture." Exh. Cat. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, Nov. 8-Dec. 6, 1964; no. 14.
"Arshile Gorky." New York: Julien Levy Gallery, 1969; plate 99.
Rubin, William S. "Dada and Surrealist Art." New York, 1970; fig. 409.
"The Seattle Art Museum Lends" Ex. Cat. Vancouver, BC: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1976; illus.
"Selected Works." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1991; p. 121
Young, Tara Reddy. ContemporaryArtProject. Exh. Cat. Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum, 2002; p. 17, reproduced fig. 2.
"Seattle Art Museum: Bridging Cultures." London: Scala Publishers Ltd. for the Seattle Art Museum, 2007; p. 10.
Kuster, Ulf, Fondation Beyeler, Richen/Basel, "Action Painting." Ex. Cat. 2008; p. 60.
Theriault, Kim S., "Rethinking Arshile Gorky." The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009; plate 23.
Taylor, Michael, "Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective." Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009; p. 276, plate 115.
Balakian, Peter. "Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture." Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015; reproduced pl. 6.
Cohen, Ada. "What is Art History?" In What are the Arts and Sciences?, edited by Dan Rockmore, pp. 27-45, Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2017, reproduced fig. 6.
Spender, Saskia, et al. Ardent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes, 1943-47. Exh. Cat. New York: Hauser & Wirth, 2017; p. 28, reproduced [not in exhibition].
Schaefer, Barbars (eds.). Once Upon a Time in America. Ex. Cat. Cologne: Wallraf Richartz Museum, 2018; p. 253, reproduced fig. 8 [not in exhibition].
Taylor, Michael. "Elective Affinities." In Frederick Kiesler: Face to Face with the Avant-Garde, Essays on Network and Impact, edited by Peter Bogner, et. al., pp. 265-280, reproduced p. 274, fig. 4.