Arshile Gorky

Recto:

Study for Mother and Son

Verso:

(Abstract Figure Sketches)

c. 1936

Woman with headscarf drawn in bold pencil lines, staring straight ahead.
Woman with headscarf drawn in bold pencil lines, staring straight ahead.

Arshile Gorky, Study for Mother and Son, c. 1936. Graphite pencil on paper, sheet: 8 7/8 × 6 13/16 in. (22.5 × 17.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder Fund and the Drawing Committee 99.49a-b. © The Arshile Gorky Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
c. 1936

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 7/8 × 6 13/16 in. (22.5 × 17.3 cm)

Accession number
99.49a-b

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder Fund and the Drawing Committee

Rights and reproductions
© The Arshile Gorky Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
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Part of a series:
The Artist and His Mother
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Woman with headscarf drawn in bold pencil lines, staring straight ahead.



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