Catalogue Entry

The artist

Likely United States WPA Federal Art Project (1935)

Presumed destroyed

Schwabacher, Ethel. Arshile Gorky. Introduction by Meyer Schapiro. New York: The Macmillan Company for the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1957. Monograph, fig. 33, ill. in b/w (detail), as "Collage study for Newark Airport Murals".

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. 3–7, ill. in b/w, p. 37, as "Sketch of a mural proposed for a public building, designed under the direction of the WPA," n.d.

Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols. Rev. ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Monograph, fig. 3–7, ill. in b/w, pp. 42–43, as "Sketch of a mural proposed for a public building, designed under the direction of the WPA," n.d.

Patterson, Jody. Modernism for the Masses: Painters, Politics, and Public Murals in 1930s New York. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020, fig. 49, ill. in b/w, p. 111, as "Mechanical Aspects of Airplane Construction," dated 1936.