Arshile Gorky

Study for Mechanics of Flying, Newark Airport Aviation Murals

c. 1936

Abstract painting with large shapes in gray, brown, blue, yellow, and black, overlapping in a colorful pattern.
Abstract painting with large shapes in gray, brown, blue, yellow, and black, overlapping in a colorful pattern.

Arshile Gorky, Study for Mechanics of Flying, Newark Airport Aviation Murals, c. 1936. Opaque watercolor and graphite pencil on paper, sheet (Irregular): 15 × 18 1/4 in. (38.1 × 46.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; 50th Anniversary Gift of Alan H. Temple 80.16. © The Arshile Gorky Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
c. 1936

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Opaque watercolor and graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 15 × 18 1/4 in. (38.1 × 46.4 cm)

Accession number
80.16

Credit line
50th Anniversary Gift of Alan H. Temple

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

API
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