Arshile Gorky

(Christmas card)

c. 1931

A stylized angel playing a stringed instrument printed on textured brown paper.
A stylized angel playing a stringed instrument printed on textured brown paper.

Arshile Gorky, (Christmas card), c. 1931. Woodcut, sheet: 6 1/8 × 9 1/8 in. (15.6 × 23.2 cm) Image: 6 × 3 15/16 in. (15.2 × 10 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee 87.9. © The Arshile Gorky Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
c. 1931

Classification
Prints

Medium
Woodcut

Dimensions
Sheet: 6 1/8 × 9 1/8 in. (15.6 × 23.2 cm) Image: 6 × 3 15/16 in. (15.2 × 10 cm)

Accession number
87.9

Edition
Small edition for friends

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

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

API
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