Provenance
The estate of the artist; private collection; (Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York); purchased 28 February 1979 by NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1957
- 33 Paintings by Arshile Gorky, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1957, no. 2, repro.
- 1962
- Arshile Gorky: Paintings, Drawings, Studies, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C., 1962-1963, no. 17, repro.
- 1965
- Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, Tate Gallery, London; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1965, no. 19, repro.
- 1977
- Malerei und Photographie im Dialog von 1840 bis Heute, Kunsthaus, Zurich, May-July 1977, no. 52, repro.
- 1977
- The Modern Spirit: American Painting 1908-1935, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Hayward Gallery, London, August-November 1977, no. 151.
- 1979
- Arshile Gorky: Important Paintings and Drawings, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York, 1979, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
- 1981
- Arshile Gorky 1904-1948: A Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981-1982, no. 76, repro. (shown only in New York and Los Angeles).
- 1989
- Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948, Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1989-1990, no. 9, repro.
- 1995
- Armenien: Wiederentdeckung einer alten Kulturlandschaft, Museum Bochum, Germany, 1995, no. 321, repro.
- 2002
- Arshile Gorky Portraits, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2002, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
- 2006
- Arshile Gorky, Fresno Art Museum, 2006, no. 1, repro.
- 2009
- Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Tate Modern, London; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2009-2010, no. 33, repro.
- 2015
- Collection Conversations: The Chrysler and the National Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, 2015, no catalogue.
- 2019
- The Warmth of Other Suns, The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2019.
Bibliography
- 1980
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 166, repro.
- 1980
- Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980: no. 61, color repro.
- 1981
- Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: repro. 240, 243.
- 1984
- Lader, Melvin P. "Arshile Gorky's The Artist and His Mother: Further Study of its Evolution, Sources, and Meaning." Arts Magazine 58, no. 5 (January 1984): 96-104, fig. 3.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 616, no. 952, color repro.
- 1988
- Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Rev. ed. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988: 188, no. 71, color repro.
- 1989
- Kramer, Hilton. "Modern Art at the National Gallery." The New Criterion 7, no. 8 (April 1989): 3.
- 1989
- Strick, Jeremy. Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building. Washington, D.C., 1989: 46, repro. 47.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 188, repro.
- 1997
- Southgate, M. Therese. The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association. St. Louis, 1997: 112-113, 207, color repro.
- 2000
- Kirsh, Andrea, and Rustin S. Levenson. Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies. Materials and Meaning in the Fine Arts 1. New Haven, 2000: 264.
- 2004
- Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 430-431, no. 358, color repro.
- 2010
- Gale, Matthew. Arshile Gorky: Enigma and Nostalgia. London, 2010: 24, fig. 6.
- 2022
- Meyer, James. "Exhibitions." Art for the Nation no. 65 (Spring 2022): 30-31, repro.
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