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Provenance
The artist
Possibly Guild Art Gallery, New York or Anna Walinska, New York . . .
New Gallery and Bookshop (E.V. Thaw & Co.), New York (after 1950)
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (February 1956)
Alan H. Temple, Scarsdale, New York (January 19, 1959)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, by gift (April 17, 1980)
Exhibitions
1954c New York
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Two Lyric Abstractionists: Gorky, Works of the Middle Period / Trökes, Recent Gouaches and Drawings, March 31–April 24, 1954, as "Study for a Mural," [not in checklist].1980d New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 50th Anniversary Gifts, June 3–August 31, 1980, as "Study for Mechanics of Flying, Newark Airport Aviation Murals".1981e New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Drawing Acquisitions, 1978–1981, September 17–November 15, 1981, as "Study for Mechanics of Flying, Newark Airport Aviation Murals".1981–82 New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective, April 24–July 19, 1981, no. 86a, as "Study for Mechanics of Flying, Newark Aviation Murals," dated c. 1936, [not in catalogue]. Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 12–November 6, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981–February 28, 1982.1989b New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Art in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions, July 7–October 29, 1989, as "Study for Mechanics of Flying, Newark Airport Aviation Murals".1992 New York
Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, American Masters: Six Artists from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, January 10–March 18, 1992, as "Study for Mechanics of Flying, Newark Airport Aviation Murals". Traveled to: Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut, April 17–June 17, 1992.2009–10 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, October 15, 2009–January 10, 2010. (Exhibition catalogue: Taylor 2009a), pl. 83, ill. in color, p. 239; p. 388, as "Study for Mechanics of Flying, for Aviation: Evolution of Forms under Aerodynamic Limitations (Newark Airport Mural)," dated c. 1936–37, [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).2025 Austin
Blanton Museum of Art, the University of Texas at Austin, In Creative Harmony: Three Artistic Partnerships, February 16–July 20, 2025.Literature
Porter 1954
Porter, Fairfield. "Reviews and Previews." Artnews (New York) 53 (April 1954), discussed, p. 53.Bulletin of the Whitney Museum of American Art 1980a
"Acquisitions." Bulletin of the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) 2 (Fall 1980), ill. in b/w, p. 52, as "Study for Mechanics of Flying, Newark Airport Aviation Murals".Bulletin of the Whitney Museum of American Art 1980b
"50th Anniversary Gifts." Bulletin of the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) 2 (Fall 1980), discussed p. 61, as "Study for Mechanics of Flying, Newark Airport Aviation Murals".Related Work
Theme: Mural
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