dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
künstler: Arshile Gorky
titel: Activities on the Field / Aviation / Aerodynamic Limitations
jahr: 1936
adresse: Newark Airport (Administration building, 2nd floor), Newark NJ, USA
+: Lost. A partial re-creation in ceramic is displayed near the ground transportation area of JFK airport.
«For the new arrivals hall, a Japanese company donated a ceramic copy of an Arshile Gorky gouache drawing done in the 1930's as a study for his murals, now destroyed, at the Newark airport.» (New York Times, May 24, 2001)
«[…]she [Charmion von Wiegand] was unsuited for the role of New Masses critic by her independent judgement on things Soviet and her disdain for the Federal Art Project, which she believed had served only to entrench artists in outmoded practices. In 1937 she opined that Arshile Gorky was 'the only man who has done a fairly decent WPA mural, sofar' (sic).» Cited from Andrew Hemingway, Artists on the Left, 2002