Carnival by Arshile Gorky
Art Institute of Chicago

Carnival

Arshile Gorky · 1943

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by Julien Levy, Bridgewater, Conn., to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1961; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Possibly, New York, Juien Levy Gallery, "Arshile Gorky," Mar. 1945, as Drawing.
  • Possibly, New York, Juien Levy Gallery, "Gorky Drawings," 1947, no cat.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Chicago Collectors," Sept.20-Oct. 27, 1963, p. 5.
  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Fantastic Drawings," Dec.18, 1967-Jan. 28, 1968, no cat.
  • College Park, Maryland, University of Maryland Art Department and Art Gallery, "The Drawings of Arshile Gorky," Mar. 20-Apr. 27, 1969, pp. 14, 39, and 53, cat. 18, fig. 24, cat. by Brooks Joyner.
  • New York, M. Knoedler and Company, "Gorky: Drawings," Nov.25-Dec. 27, 1969, pp. 36 and 58, cat. 68 (ill.), cat. by Jim M. Jordan.
  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Twentieth-Century Drawings from Chicago Collections," Sept. 15-Nov. 11, 1973.
  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters," Jan. 10-Feb. 29, 1976.
  • Ithaca, Herbert f. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, "Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years," Mar. 30-May 14, 1978, p. 70, cat. 60 (ill.), cat. by Robert Carleton Hobbs and Gail Levin; also New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Oct. 5-Dec. 3, 1978, and Tokyo, Seibu Museum, June 17-July 12, 1978.
  • Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, "Abstract Expressionism: A Tribute to Harold Rosenberg, Paintings and Drawings from Chicago Collections," Oct. 11-Nov. 25, 1979, p. 47, cat. 10.
  • New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, "Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948: A Retrospective," Apr. 24-July 19, 1981, p. 54, cat. 159, (ill.), cat. by Diane Waldman; also the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Sept. 11-Nov. 8, 1981, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dec. 3, 1981-Feb. 28, 1982.
  • Evanston, Ill., Terra Museum of American Art, "American Masters of the 20th Century," July 11-Sept. 15, 1982, cat. 20.

Literature

Published references

  • Jim M. Jordan and Robert Goldwater, The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue (New York and London, 1982), pp. 82-83.
  • Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pp. 142–43, cat. 73 (color ill.).
  • James N. Wood and Debra N. Mancoff, Treasures From The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and New York, 2000), p. 283 (ill.).

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