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Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné

Catalogue Entry

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Provenance
The artist
United States WPA Federal Art Project (1936)
City of Newark, New Jersey, by transfer (June 24, 1937)
United States War Assets Administration, Washington, D.C., by leasehold (April 1941)
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, by transfer (March 1948)
Exhibitions
1978–80 Newark
Newark Museum, New Jersey, Murals without Walls: Arshile Gorky's Aviation Murals Rediscovered, November 15, 1978–March 11, 1979. (Exhibition catalogue: O'Connor 1978b), no. 4, ill. in color, p. 68, as "Aerial Map". Traveled to: Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York, July 1–August 26, 1979; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 4–November 25, 1979; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, December 23, 1979–February 3, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 28–April 20, 1980; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, May 10–June 22, 1980; Queens Museum, New York, September 6–November 2, 1980.
1981–82 New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective, April 24–July 19, 1981, no. 87, ill. in b/w, p. 132, as "Aerial Map". Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 12–November 6, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981–February 28, 1982.
2009–10 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, October 15, 2009–January 10, 2010. (Exhibition catalogue: Taylor 2009a), pl. 85, ill. in color, pp. 242–43; p. 388, as "Aerial Map, from Aviation: Evolution of Forms under Aerodynamic Limitations (Newark Airport Mural)," [exhibited in Philadelphia only]. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, February 10–May 3, 2010 (Gale 2010); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June 6–September 20, 2010 (Gale 2010).
2010 Newark
Newark Museum, New Jersey, Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s–50s, February 17–May 23, 2010, ill. in color, pl. 7, p. 25, as "Aerial Map". Traveled to: Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, June 26–September 5, 2010.
Literature
Hess 1977
Hess, Thomas B. "Arshile Gorky Flies Again." New York 10 (September 12, 1977), ill. in color, p. 85, as "the wonders of the sky".
Unknown 1977
"First Photos Of The Restored Newark Murals.", ill., p. 7.
Daily Observer (Kearny) 1978
"Gallery Talk on Lost Mural." Observer (Kearny, NJ), November 9, 1978, discussed, as "Aerial Map of the United States".
Maske 1978
Maske, Monica. "Long-Lost Murals Fit Right into the Jet Age . . ." The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), November 17, 1978, ill. in b/w, p. 31, as "Aerial Map".
Newark Museum 1978
"Murals Without Walls." News Notes (The Newark Museum) (NJ) 35 (November 1978), ill. in b/w, p. 2, as "Aerial Map".
Russell 1978
Russell, John. "Art: Lost Murals of Arshile Gorky." New York Times, November 24, 1978, ill. in b/w, p. C17, as "Aerial Map".
Bowman 1978a
Bowman, Ruth. "Arshile Gorky Murals Recovered: The Airport's 'Buried' Treasures." Metro-Newark (NJ) 23, no. 2 (April 1978), ill. in b/w, p. 23, as "Airline Map of the United States".
Ashbery 1979
Ashbery, John. "Sweet Arshile, Bless Your Dear Heart." New York 12 (February 5, 1979), discussed pp. 52–53, as one of "two recently rediscovered murals".
Bourdon 1979
Bourdon, David. "Art: Murals without Walls, Arshile Gorky's Aviation Murals Rediscovered." Vogue (New York) 169, no. 7 (July 1, 1979), discussed p. 25.
Howard 1979
Howard, Hugh. "The Case Of the Vanishing Murals." American Way (Miami) (November 1979), ill. in color, p. 116, as "Aerial Map".
Progressive Architecture 1979
"Gorky's 'Mural Without Walls' Newark Museum, Newark, NJ through March 11, 1979." Progressive Architecture (New York) 60 (January 1979), ill. in color, p. 23, as "Aerial Map".
Shirey 1979
Shirey, David L. "Discovery in Newark: Works of Gorky." New York Times, February 4, 1979, ill. in b/w, section 11, p. 22, as "Aerial Map".
Waldman 1981
Waldman, Diane. "Arshile Gorky: Poet in Paint." In Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1981. Exhibition catalogue, discussed p. 37, as "Aviation: Evolution of Forms Under Aerodynamic Limitations".
Shirey 1982
Shirey, David L. "Gorky's Airport Murals at the Newark Museum." New York Times, June 13, 1982, ill. in b/w, p. 26, as "Aerial Map".
Jordan 1982a
Jordan, Jim M. "The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: New Discoveries, New Sources, and Chronology." In The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, by Jim M. Jordan and Robert Goldwater. New York and London: New York University Press, 1982, discussed pp. 57–59, as "Mechanics of Flying".
Jordan 1982b
Jordan, Jim M. "Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings." In The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, by Jim M. Jordan and Robert Goldwater. New York and London: New York University Press, 1982, no. 141v, ill. in b/w, p. 278, as "Mechanics of Flying," right panel.
Lader 1985
Lader, Melvin P. Arshile Gorky. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. Monograph, fig. 50, ill. in color, p. 55, as "Aerial Map, from Aviation: Evolution of Forms under Aerodynamic Limitiations".
Wallis 1996
Wallis, Stephen. "The Federal Art Project: A New Deal for Artists." Art & Antiques (New York) 19 (June 1996), discussed p. 61, as "Aerial Map".
Spender 1999
Spender, Matthew. From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1999, ill. in b/w, p. 152, as "Aerial Map".
Kolbe 2009
Kolbe, Regina. "Dreams Form The Bristles Of The Artist's Brush: Arshile Gorky, The Last Great Surrealist." Antiques and The Arts Weekly (Newton, CT) (October 23, 2009), ill. in color, p. 68, as "Aerial Map".
Mattison 2009
Matttison, Robert S. Arshile Gorky: Works and Writings. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafica, 2009. Monograph, ill. in color, p. 153, as "Aerial Map".
Theriault 2009a
Theriault, Kim S. Rethinking Arshile Gorky. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. Monograph, fig. 32, ill. in b/w, p. 95; ill. in b/w (detail), p. 86, as "Aerial Map".
Alberro 2010
Alberro, Alexander. "The Apprenticeship of Arshile Gorky: On Arshile Gorky at the Philadelphia Museum of Art." Texte zur Kunst (Cologne) 77 (March 2010), discussed pp. 148, 210, as "Aerial Map".
Georgievska-Shine 2010
Georgievska-Shine, Aneta. "Arshile Gorky: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles." ArtUS (Los Angeles), no. 29 (2010), ill. in color, p. 24, as "Aerial Map, from Aviation: Evolution of Forms under Aerodynamic Limitiations".
Bloom 2019
Bloom, Tricia Laughlin. Seeing America: The Arc of Abstraction. Newark: Newark Museum of Art, 2019, fig. 42, ill. in color, p. 83, as "Aerial Map".
Patterson 2020
Patterson, Jody. Modernism for the Masses: Painters, Politics, and Public Murals in 1930s New York. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020, fig. 47, ill. in color (detail), frontispiece; fig. 47, ill. in color, p. 109, as "Aerial Map, from Aviation: Evolution of Forms under Aerodynamic Limitations (Newark Airport Murals)".
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Theme: Mural

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