Study for "Agony"

Artist Arshile Gorky American, born Turkish Armenia, 1904–1948

Date1946–1947

MediumPen and ink with crayon on paper

Dimensions8 1/2 x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 cm)

ClassificationsDrawings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John Foushee

Object numberG.63.40.1

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated New York, 1946–1947; collection of the artist; estate of the artist, 1948; to widow, Agnes Magruder Gorky (later Mrs. John C. Phillips); to Mr. and Mrs. John M. Foushee, Sr., Chapel Hill, NC, ca. 1955; given to NCMA, 1963.
Published References"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67), listed 74, illus. (b-w) 63, fig. 27.

A Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1969), cat. no. 31, illus. (b-w).

Robert Reiff, "A Drawing by Arshile Gorky: A Study for Agony," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 8 (June 1969), 17-21, illus. (b-w) fig. 1.

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue), Michael R. Taylor, ed. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009), illus. (color) 321, fig. 159.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Drawings and Watercolors," Summer 1969, cat. no. 31, illus. (b-w).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "American Works on Paper, 1943-1974," July 12-October 16, 1983.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Elements of Surrealism in Modern Art," February 28-May 28, 1989.

Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective," October 21, 2009-January 10, 2010; London, Tate Modern, February 10-May 3, 2010; Los Angeles, CA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June 6-September 20, 2010, illus. (color) 321, fig. 159.
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