Arshile Gorky
Virginia—Summer

Virginia—Summer

© The Arshile Gorky Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Virginia—Summer
Virginia—Summer
ArtistAmerican, born in Khorkom, Van Province, Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey), c.1904–1948
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Virginia—Summer
Date1946
PlaceUnited States
MediumGraphite and crayon on laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 19 × 24 3/8 in. (48.3 × 62 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Oveta Culp Hobby
Object number92.424
Not on view

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ProvenanceThe artist; Estate of Arshile Gorky; [consigned to Lennon, Weinberg, New York, November 20, 1988—January 27, 1989]; [purchased by Katherine Komaroff Fine Arts, New York, in 1989]; [purchased by Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, 1989-1992]; [purchased by Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, October 1992]; purchased by MFAH, 1992.
Exhibition History"Gorky: Drawings," M Knoedler & Co., Inc. New York, November 25–December 27, 1969.

"Arshile Gorky 1904-1948, A Retrospective," Guggenheim Museum, New York, April 24–July 19, 1982; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 12–November 6, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981–February 28, 1982.

"Texas Collects Willem de Kooning and His Contemporaries," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 19–May 21, 1995.

"Arshile Gorky: The Breakthrough Years," National Gallery of Art, Washington, May 9–September 17, 1995; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, October 13–December 31, 1995; Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth, Texas, January 13–March 17, 1996.

"Arshile Gorky: A Drawings Retrospective," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 20, 2003–February 15, 2004; The Menil Collection, Houston, March 5–May 9, 2004.

"Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective," Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 20, 2009–January 10, 2010; Tate Modern, London, February 10–May 3, 2010; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June 6–September 20, 2010.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in graphite, lower right corner: A.Gorky
Recto: Watermark, bottom left: MICHALLET / FRANCE
Recto: Watermark, bottom right: UFPC [three flowers]

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