Object number1975.11

Study for Entry for Mural (Unexecuted), Marine Transportation Building, New York World's Fair

Datec. 1939

Artist Arshile Gorky (American, b. Turkey, 1904 - 1948)

CultureArmenian

MediumGouache on board

DimensionsFramed: 18 3/4 x 21 3/8 in. (47.63 x 54.29 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/4 x 10 7/8 in. (20.96 x 27.62 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Louise Woodruff Johnston, class of 1922, Fund

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

SignedSigned (LR): Arshile Gorky

Catalogue raisonnéArshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonne, D0795BibliographyHerrera, Hayden. "Arshile Gorky: Works on Paper." Artnews (New York) 74 (March 1975), discussed p. 97, as "1939 mural study"; Phagan, Patricia, "American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s" American Art Review, February 2007, p. 141. For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s, (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 2007) ; Splender, Mathew, ed., Arshile Gorky: A Life in Letters and Documents (Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2018), p. 163, repr.ProvenanceThe artist;
Leonore Gallet, New York (c. 1939–40);
[M. Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York (September 23, 1969)];
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (April 4, 1975)

Vassar Exhibitions

For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s

Exhibition HistoryJ. Millard Tawes Fine Arts Center, University of Maryland Art Department and Art Gallery, College Park, The Drawings of Arshile Gorky, March 20–April 27, 1969. (Exhibition catalogue: Joyner 1969), no. 15 (Drawings, Sketches, Gouaches), p. 53; fig. 21, ill. in b/w, p. 37, as "Study for Marine Building Mural," dated 1939.

M. Knoedler & Co. Inc, New York, Arshile Gorky: Works on Paper, January 9–February 1, 1975, no. 13, as "Study for Mural Competition–Marine Building, 1939 World's Fair".

Newark Museum, New Jersey, Murals without Walls: Arshile Gorky's Aviation Murals Rediscovered, November 15, 1978–March 11, 1979. (Exhibition catalogue: O'Connor 1978b), no. 29, ill. in b/w, p. 89, as "Study for Marine Building Mural," dated 1939.

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s, January 12–March 11, 2007, ill. in color, fig. 13, ill. in color, p. 11, as "Study for Entry for Mural (Unexecuted), Marine Transportation Building, New York World's Fair".

Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. To help improve this record, please email loebcollections@vassar.edu