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

1939

Arshile Gorky

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

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    opaque watercolor over graphite on paper mounted to board

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Avalon Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sight size: 23.2 x 102 cm (9 1/8 x 40 3/16 in.)
    framed (D): 2.3 cm (7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1971.59.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Costello, No.D0797

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist; to Esther John H. Magruder II, Lincoln, Virginia, c.1940-43; to John H. Magruder III, Washington D.C., likely by gift, by 1968; to Henri Gallery, Washington D.C., by 1968; to Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, October 23,1968; purchased by National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., April 30, 1971.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 2–September 2, 1974, ill. in b/w, p. 220, as "Sketch for a Marine Building Mural".

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).

Bibliography

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 Art_2/24 (2010): 50-73.

Inscriptions

lower left: A Gorky / 1939, Verso, on board, center, black ink, unknown hand: Mural Panel / For / Dining Room / Second Deck / Size: 20' 4" x 4' 9" / Material: Inlaid Linoleum / or / Oil on canvas / Two Circular Panels / Executed in same medium. / For / United States Maritime / Commission

Markings

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Watermarks

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Wikidata ID

Q64536485

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