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Study for "The Plough and the Song"

Artist/Maker (American, ca. 1904–1948)
Date1944
MediumPencil and crayon on paper
DimensionsOverall: 19 × 25 5/16 in. (48.3 × 64.3 cm)
Credit LineFriends of Art Fund
Object number1956.1
Status
Not on view
CopyrightPublic domainExhibition History
Drawings and Watercolors from the Oberlin Collection
  • University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (March 11, 1956 - April 1, 1956 )
Abstract Drawings and Watercolors: USA
  • Museo de Bella Artes, Caracas, Venezuela (January 14, 1962 - February 24, 1962 )
  • Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (March 29, 1962 - April 22, 1962 )
  • Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil (May 8, 1962 - May 31, 1962 )
  • Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina (July 1, 1962 - July 22, 1962 )
  • Salon of the Municipal Government of Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay (August 3, 1962 - August 19, 1963 )
  • Reifschneider Gallery, Santiago, Chile (September 24, 1962 - October 6, 1962 )
  • Instituto de Arte Contemporaneo, Lima, Peru (October 23, 1962 - November 3, 1962 )
  • Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Guayquil, Ecuador (November 10, 1962 - November 16, 1962 )
  • Museo de Arte Colonial, Quito, Ecuador (November 23, 1962 - November 30, 1962 )
Arshile Gorky
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York (December 19, 1962 - February 12, 1963 )
  • Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC (March 12, 1963 - April 14, 1963 )
Oberlin Friends of Art: 25 Years of Collecting
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 5, 1963 - March 26, 1963 )
The Drawings of Arshile Gorky
  • University of Maryland Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD (March 20, 1969 - April 27, 1969 )
Gorky Drawings
  • M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (November 25, 1969 - December 27, 1969 )
The Subjects of the Artist
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (June 1, 1978 - January 14, 1979 )
Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948: A Retrospective
  • The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (April 24, 1981 - July 19, 1981 )
The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper, 1938-48
  • Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (July 16, 1986 - September 14, 1986 )
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (November 13, 1986 - January 21, 1987 )
  • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (February 21, 1987 - April 19, 1987 )
The Body and Other 20th-Century Metaphors
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (November 15, 1991 - January 12, 1992 )
Focus on Permanent Collection: Abstract Expressionism
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 21, 1993 - November 21, 1993 )
Arshile Gorky: A Drawing Retrospective
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (November 11, 2003 - February 15, 2004 )
  • The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (March 5, 2004 - May 12, 2004 )
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (October 20, 2009 - January 10, 2010 )
  • Tate Britain, London (February 10, 2010 - May 3, 2010 )
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (June 6, 2010 - September 20, 2010 )
Another Look
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 6, 2011 - December 23, 2011 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary