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Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
Drawings and Paintings by Arshile Gorky – Mina Boehm Metzger Collection. 16 September 2009 – Ongoing. Venue: Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA.
This exhibition features works from the collection of Mina Boehm Metzger, who was a friend, patron and student of Arshile Gorky. Presented in the historic home of James McNeill Whistler, the show includes 28 never-before-seen and rarely viewed works of art. The Metzger collection is comprised mainly of paintings and drawings from the 1930s, when modern masters such as Paul Cézanne, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso were of great influence to the artist. In addition, the exhibition also includes several portrait drawings of Metzger and the only surviving stone sculpture executed by Gorky.
A catalogue, Drawings and Paintings by Arshile Gorky – The Mina Boehm Metzger Collection, accompanies the exhibition.
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective. Venues: Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 21 October 2009 – 10 January 2010; Tate Modern, London, Spring 2010; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, Summer 2010.
Including approximately 200 paintings and drawings from public and private collections, this exhibition is the first full-scale survey of Gorky’s work since the retrospective held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1981. The installation is presented in chronological sequence, and includes several thematic groupings to highlight the various phases of Gorky’s career. The artist’s most significant paintings, such as Agony (1947; the Museum of Modern Art, New York), are presented alongside the meticulous drawings that informed their making. Because it has been almost thirty years since the last comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the artist, this occasion introduces Gorky’s work to a new generation of viewers, and for the artist’s longtime admirers, celebrates his singular importance within the history of art.
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective is accompanied by a 350-page catalogue that includes essays by Harry Cooper, Jody Patterson, Robert Storr, Michael Taylor, and Kim Theriault. The essays are followed by a color plate section, a chronology by Melissa Kerr, and an exhibition history and bibliography.
Arshile Gorky: Selections from the Private Collection of Gerard L. Cafesjian. Venue: Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Yerevan, Armenia. 8 November 2009 – Ongoing.
To coincide with the opening of this new institution, this exhibition features paintings and drawings by Arshile Gorky from the Gerald L. Cafesjian Collection.
Gesture, Scrape, Combine, Calculate. Venue: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, MO. 20 August - 20 September 2010.
Abstract Expressionist New York. Venue: Museum of Modern Art, New York. 3 October 2010 - 25 April 2011.
Utilizing works solely from MoMA's vast permanent collection, this exhibition includes important works by Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, David Smith, and others.
The Four Musketeers of American Modernism: John Graham, Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, and Their Circle. Venues: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, 4 September – 30 November 2011; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, 15 January – 15 April 2012; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, 9 June – 19 August 2012; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, September – 30 December 2012.
The Four Musketeers focuses on the circle of artists associated with John Graham (1887-1961), a mysterious figure who played a key role in the American art community from the late 1920s through the 1940s. By 1930, Graham, Gorky and Stuart Davis were so constantly in one another’s company that Willem de Kooning nicknamed them “the Three Musketeers.” This exhibition will feature works by Graham, Davis, Gorky, and de Kooning, largely from the years 1927 to 1942, when they were in closest contact, as well as selected works by other members of their circle, such as Alexander Calder, Lee Krasner, and David Smith.
A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition, featuring essays by guest curators Karen Wilkin, William C. Agee, and Irving Sandler.
Other News
22 October 2009
To coincide with the opening of the exhibition Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Arshile Gorky Foundation re-launched its website on 22 October 2009. The new design was created by Creative Arc, a Minneapolis-based firm.
11 March 2010
The United States Postal Service issued a 44-cent Abstract Expressionists commemorative stamp in ten designs. Arshile Gorky's The Liver is the Cock's Comb (1944; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY) is featured along with works by Hans Hofmann, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, and Joan Mitchell.
17 August 2010
A detailed chronology of the artist's life was uploaded to the website. It can be accessed from the Gorky's Life tab on the main menu.