The Plow and the Song

1. The artist (d. 1948); by descent to the Estate of the Artist, 1948; by descent to his wife, Agnes Fielding Gorky Phillips (Mrs. John C. Phillips) until at least October 1952 [Princeton 1952]. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley J. Wolf, Great Neck, New York, by 1962 [Seitz 1962]. Sold through Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, April 4, 1963.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Arshile Gorky: Memorial Exhibition, Jan. 5–Feb. 18, 1951, cat. 51 (as The Plow and the Song); Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Mar. 4–Apr. 22, 1951; San Francisco Museum of Art, May 9–July 9, 1951.
• Princeton, The Art Museum of Princeton University, Arshile Gorky: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Oct. 6–26, 1952, cat. 22 (as The Plow and The Song II, circa 1947).
• New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Arshile Gorky in the Final Years, Feb. 16–Mar. 14, 1953, cat. 10.
• New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Gorky, Dec. 2–28, 1957, cat. 25 (ill. as The Plow & the Song II, 1946).
• London, Tate Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, April 2– May 2, 1965, cat. 93; Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, May 22–June 27, 1965; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, July 9–Aug. 15, 1965.
• Philadelphia, The Peale Galleries of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Paintings and Drawings by Arshile Gorky, Nov. 9–Dec. 10, 1967, cat. 3.
• New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Acquisition Priorities: Aspects of Postwar Painting in America, Including Arshile Gorky: Works 1944 – 1948, Oct. 15, 1976–Jan. 16, 1977, cat. 3.
• New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Arshile Gorky: 1904–1948, A Retrospective, Apr. 24–July 19, 1981, cat. 203 (as The Plough and the Song No. 2).
• Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, cat. 61 (as “The Plow and the Song); Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, Oct. 11, 2009–Jan. 3, 2010, cat. 147; London, Tate Modern, Feb. 3–May 9, 2010; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jun. 6–Sept. 20, 2010.

• Ethel Schwabacher, Arshile Gorky: Memorial Exhibition, ex., cat. (Plantin Press, 1951), pp. 41; 47, cat. 51 (as The Plow and The Song, c. 1947).
• Arshile Gorky: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, exh. brochure (The Art Museum of Princeton Unversity, 1952), cat. 22 (as The Plow and the Song II, circa 1947).
• Arshile Gorky in the Final Years, exh. brochure (Sidney Janis Gallery, 1953), cat. 10.
• Ethel Schwabacher, Arshile Gorky (Whitney Museum of American Art; Macmillan Company, 1957), p. 114
• Gorky, exh. cat. (Sidney Janis Gallery, 1957), cat. 25 (ill. as The Plow & The Song II, 1946).
• William C. Seitz, Arshile Gorky: Paintings, Drawings, Studies, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, 1962), pp. 45–46 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1962-63 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1963), p. 15 (as The Plough and the Song, II, 1946).
• “Recent Acquisitions,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 57, no. 4 (1963-1964): pp. 6 (ill., as The Plough and the Song #2, 1946); 7.
• Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat. (The Tate Gallery Arts Council, 1965), cat. 93.
• Julien Levy, Arshile Gorky (Harry N. Abrams, 1966), pp. 21, 31, 36, pl. 183 (ill., as The Plow and the Song II, 1946).
• Charles C. Cunningham, Instituto de Arte de Chicago, El mundo de los museos (Editorial Codex, 1967), p. 80 (color ill., as El arado y la cancion II).
• Paintings and Drawings by Arshile Gorky, exh. brochure (Peale Galleries of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1967), cat. 3.

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