Untitled
<p>In July 1943, Arshile Gorky vacationed in the foothills of the Appalachians, at the Virginia farm of his wife’s parents. There he devoted himself to drawing outdoors, developing a vocabulary of leaf, seed, and pod shapes from the lush mid-summer landscape. Drawn with obvious passion, this work, with its essentially joyous riot of color, provides little indication of the suffering and despair of Gorky’s last years, which eventually caused him to take his own life.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1943
- Dimensions
- 57.8 × 73.6 cm (22 13/16 × 29 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
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Untitled
1947 · Charcoal, with stumping, smudging, and erasing, and touches of red-orange and green crayon, on ivory laid paper
Agony
1947 · Oil on canvas
Study for Agony
1947 · Pen and black ink, and brush and black wash (recto) and brush and black ink wash and graphite (verso) on cream wove paper
Summation
1947 · Pencil, pastel, and charcoal on buff paper mounted on board
The Plow and the Song
1946 · Oil on canvas
Young Cherry Trees Secured Against Hare
1946 · Book with 2 drawings in pen and black ink, one with white opaque watercolor and the other with red opaque watercolor, on gray laid paper, tipped into book
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Year
- 1943
- Dimensions
- 57.8 × 73.6 cm (22 13/16 × 29 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1943-136570
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified