Arshile Gorky
Composition II
1945
Scroll
Arshile Gorky
Composition II
1945
Physical Qualities
Graphite and crayon, Sheet: 479 × 640 mm. (18 7/8 × 25 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Nelson and Juanita Greif Gutman Collection
Object Number
1967.20
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, "Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948: A Retrospective," April 23 - July 19, 1981; circulated to Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 11 - November 8, 1981; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981 - February 28, 1982, cat 240.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Old Master Drawings from the BMA and Gilmor Collections," 10 October - 10 December, 1989.
BMA, "BMA Collects: Surrealist Drawings," 27 February - 29 April, 1990.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Arshile Gorky: The Breakthrough Years," May 14, 1994 - September 17, 1994; exhibition organized by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in cooperation with Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. NGA venue only.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Arshile Gorky: A Drawing Retrospective," November 20, 2003 - February 15, 2004; tour to Menil Collection, Houston, March 5, 2004 - May 12, 2004.
BMA, "Major Modern Drawings from the Collection," 8 October - 18 December 1994.
Darsie Alexander, "Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction,"Baltimore Museum of Art, May 20, 2006 - July 30, 2006.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, "Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948: A Retrospective," April 23 - July 19, 1981; circulated to Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 11 - November 8, 1981; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981 - February 28, 1982, cat 240.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Old Master Drawings from the BMA and Gilmor Collections," 10 October - 10 December, 1989.
BMA, "BMA Collects: Surrealist Drawings," 27 February - 29 April, 1990.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Arshile Gorky: The Breakthrough Years," May 14, 1994 - September 17, 1994; exhibition organized by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in cooperation with Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. NGA venue only.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Arshile Gorky: A Drawing Retrospective," November 20, 2003 - February 15, 2004; tour to Menil Collection, Houston, March 5, 2004 - May 12, 2004.
BMA, "Major Modern Drawings from the Collection," 8 October - 18 December 1994.
Darsie Alexander, "Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction,"Baltimore Museum of Art, May 20, 2006 - July 30, 2006.
Spender, Saskia, ed. Ardent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes, 1943-1947. New York: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2017.
Clisby, Roger D. 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings from the Baltimore Museum of Art: Catalogue [of an exhibition held at the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, November 3 - December 2, 1973, Honolulu Academy of Arts, January 18 - February 17, 1974, and William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, April 2 - April 21, 1974]. [Sacramento, CA]: E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, 1973, cat. no. 22, unpaged.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 145, ill.
