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Exhibitions
Federal Art Project Gallery, New York, Murals for Public Buildings, December 27, 1935–[closing date unknown], as "Aviation".
Literature
"W.P.A. Murals Are Too Much For LaGuardia." New York Herald Tribune, December 28, 1935, discussed, p. 5, as "Aviation".
Jewell, Edward Alden. "Community Effort Gains." New York Times, January 5, 1936, discussed, sec. 9, p. 10, as "Aviation".
Gorky, Arshile. Camouflage. New York: Grand Central School of Art, 1941, ill. in b/w (repr. 90 degrees counterclockwise), cover, as "Mural — Newark Airport".
Ajay, Abe. "Working for the WPA." Art in America (New York) 60 (September–October 1972), ill. in b/w (in situ), p. 72.
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. 141j, ill. in b/w, p. 274, as "Sketch for Activities on the Field, left panel".
Spender, Matthew. From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1999, ill. in b/w, pp. 146–47.
Patterson, Jody. Modernism for the Masses: Painters, Politics, and Public Murals in 1930s New York. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020, fig. 57, ill. in b/w, p. 121.
Notes
Gorky and Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia at the opening of the Federal Art Project Gallery, New York, December 27, 1935.
Photo: Leo Seltzer; © Arshile Gorky Estate Archive
Gorky and Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia at the opening of the Federal Art Project Gallery, New York, December 27, 1935. The mayor is being given a copy of the Artists' Union publication Art Front.
Photo: Leo Seltzer; © Frances Mulhall Achilles Library, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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