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Commentary

The drawings were made on pages from the New York tabloid, PM Daily, dated November 19, 1941. 

Gorky was an inveterate reader of the newspaper and its fellow tabloids.¹ As Agnes "Mougouch" Gorky (1921–2013) later recalled: "[Gorky and I] never got onto a subway without being armed with at least one newspaper. We got the newspaper every morning. Daily News, or the 'Daily Something.' The one which was quite good was the New York Post, and that we used to read, and agree or not agree. Taking it very seriously."² 

1. "Mougouch Gorky: Remembering When Gorky and Matta First Met," June 1997, in Matthew Spender, ed., Arshile Gorky: The Plow and the Song: A Life in Letters and Documents (Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2018), 266.

2. Ibid.