Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné

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Provenance

The artist

Likely United States WPA Federal Art Project (1935)

Presumed destroyed

Exhibitions

1935–36b New York

Federal Art Project Gallery, New York, Murals for Public Buildings, December 27, 1935–[closing date unknown], as "Aviation".

Literature

New York Herald Tribune 1935

"W.P.A. Murals Are Too Much For LaGuardia." New York Herald Tribune, December 28, 1935, discussed, p. 5, as "Aviation".

Verelk 1936

Վերելք (Verelk) 1 (1936), ill. in b/w, p. 182.

Jewell 1936a

Jewell, Edward Alden. "Community Effort Gains." New York Times, January 5, 1936, discussed, sec. 9, p. 10, as "Aviation".

Gorky 1941b

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 1972

Ajay, Abe. "Working for the WPA." Art in America (New York) 60 (September–October 1972), ill. in b/w (in situ), p. 72.

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. 141j, ill. in b/w, p. 274, as "Sketch for Activities on the Field, left panel".

Spender 1999

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 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. 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.

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.

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Theme: Mural