Study for Mural for the Marine Transportation Building, New York World's Fair, 1939

Not on View

opaque watercolor over graphite on paper mounted to board

sight size: 23.2 x 102 cm (9 1/8 x 40 3/16 in.)

framed (D): 2.3 cm (7/8 in.)

1971.59.1

Arshile Gorky (artist) American, born Van Province, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey), c. 1904 - 1948

lower left: A Gorky / 1939

John H. Magruder III (brother-in-law of the artist), Hamilton, Virginia; (Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, 1968); purchased 1971 by NGA.

Landau Gallery, Felix

2003: Arshile Gorky Drawings Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Menil Collection, Houston, 2003-2004, no. 50.

2009: Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Tate Modern, London; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2009- 2010, no. 86, repro. (shown only in Philadelphia).

1974: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts: Sculptures, Drawings, Prints. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974:220.

2009: Taylor, Michael R. ed. Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art; Tate Modern, London, England; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2009-2010, no. 86.

2010: Patterson, Jody. "Modernism and Murals at the 1939 New York World's Fair."American Art2/24 (2010): 50-73.