Catalogue Entry

Presumed destroyed

Reiff, Robert F. "A Stylistic Analysis of Arshile Gorky's Art from 1943–1948." Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, New York, 1961, fig. 89, ill. in b/w (in situ), p. 367, as "1940 World's Fair Murals".

Bowman, Ruth. "Arshile Gorky's 'Aviation' Murals Rediscovered." In Murals Without Walls: Arshile Gorky's Aviation Murals Rediscovered, Ruth Bowman. Newark, NJ: The Newark Museum, 1978, ill. in b/w (in situ), p. 37, as "Man's Conquest of the Air".

Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols. Montclair, NJ: Allanheld, Osmun & Co. Publishers Inc., and London: George Prior Associated Publishers Ltd., 1981. Monograph, fig. 3–10, ill. in b/w (in situ), p. 40, as "Man's Conquest of the Air".

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. 75–76, as "Man's Conquest of the Air".

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. 222, ill. in b/w (in situ), pp. 368–70, as "Man's Conquest of the Air".

Lader, Melvin P. Arshile Gorky. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. Monograph, fig. 49, ill. in b/w (in situ), p. 55, as "Conquest of the Air, New York World's Fair Mural, Aviation Building".

Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols. Rev. ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Monograph, fig. 3–10, ill. in b/w (in situ), p. 45, as "Man's Conquest of the Air," n.d.

Herrera, Hayden. Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003, fig. 108, ill. in b/w (in situ), as "Conquest of the Air, New York World's Fair Mural, Aviation Building".

Patterson, Jody. "'Flight from Reality'? A Reconsideration of Gorky's Politics and Approach to Public Murals in the 1930s." In Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, edited by Michael Taylor. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 64, ill. in b/w (in situ), p. 87, as "Man's Conquest of the Air".

Theriault, Kim S. Rethinking Arshile Gorky. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. Monograph, fig. 34, ill. in b/w (in situ), p. 98, as "Man's Conquest of the Air".

Patterson, Jody. "Modernism and Murals at the 1939 New York World's Fair." American Art (New York) 24, no. 2 (Summer 2010), fig. 9, ill. in b/w (in situ), p. 60, as "Man's Conquest of the Air".

Spender, Matthew, ed. Arshile Gorky: The Plow and the Song: A Life in Letters and Documents. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2018, ill. in b/w (in situ), p. 172, as "Man's Conquest of the Air".

Patterson, Jody. Modernism for the Masses: Painters, Politics, and Public Murals in 1930s New York. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020, fig. 100, ill. in b/w (in situ), p. 190, as "Man's Conquest of the Air".