The Artist's Mother

1. Julien Levy, New York, 1946. Sold by the Staempfli Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1965.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Chicago, Arts Club, "Drawings 1916/1966," February 28-March 11, 1966, n.p., cat. 35 (ill.).
• Philadelphia, Pa., Peale Galleries of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, "Paintings and Drawings by Arshile Gorky," November 9-December 10, 1967, cat. 9.
• New York, M. Knoedler and Company, "Gorky: Drawings," November 25-December 27, 1969, pp. 30 and 57, cat. 47 (ill.).
• College Park, Md., University of Maryland Art Department and Gallery, "The Drawings of Arshile Gorky," 1969, p. 8, cat. 5 (ill.).
• Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23–May 14, 1972, n.p..
• Palm Beach, Fla., Society of the Four Arts, "Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 5–27, 1974, n.p., cat. 24 (ill.).
• Milwaukee, Wis., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,"Arshile Gorky: Drawings and Paintings," April 29-May 10, 1974.
• Cambridge, Mass., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Drawings by Abstract Expressionist Painters," February 21-March 26, 1975.
• New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, "Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations," December 19, 1975-August 29, 1976, pp. 62-63, cat. 78 (ill.).
• New York, Columbia University, "Modern Portraits: The Self & Others," pp. 58-59 and 184, cat. 41 (ill.); traveled only to Wildenstein and Company, New York, October 20–November 28, 1976.
• Washington D.C., National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, "American Portrait Drawings," May 1-July 21, 1980, p. 130, cat. by Marvin Sadik and Harold Francis Pfiste.
• Paris, Centre Georges Pompido, "Les Réalismes, 1919-1939," December 17, 1980-April 20, 1981, p. 263 (ill.); traveled to the Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, May 10-June 30, 1981.

• Ethel K. Schwabacher, Arshile Gorky (New York, 1957), p. 35 (ill.).
• Julien Levy, Arshile Gorky (New York, 1966), n.p., pl. 22.
• John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), p. 171 (ill.).
• K. Mooradian, Ararat 12:4 (Fall 1971) (ill.).
• John Wilmerding (editor), The Genius of American Painting (New York, 1973), p. 262 (ill.).
• Arshile Gorky: Oeuvres sur papier, 1929-1947, exh. cat. (Lausanne, 1990), p. 27, fig. 11.
• James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 217 (ill.).
• Nouritza Matossian, Black Angel: A Life of Arshile Gorky (London, 1999), pp. 274-275, fig. 1.
• Gagosian Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Portraits, exh. cat. (New York, 2002), pp. 15 and 30-33 (ill.).
• Hayden Herrara, Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work (New York, 2003).
• The Essential Guide (Chicago, 2009), p. 310 (ill.).
• Karen Wilkin, Arshile Gorky Drawings, The Hopkins Review, 18.3 (Summer 2025), p. 81 (ill.).

The Plow and the Song

Art Institute of Chicago

After Khorkom

Art Institute of Chicago

Carnival

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for Agony

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

Art Institute of Chicago

Mannikin

Art Institute of Chicago

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