Grand Central School of Art (Course Catalogue). Printed after 1928, probably the program for 1929-1930 (based on the text on pp. 5 – 6 citing enrollment numbers for 1928). New York: Marguerite Tuttle, b/w ill. p.14.
Grand Central School of Art (Course Catalogue). Printed after 1929, probably the program for 1930-1931 (based on the text on pp. 3 – 4 citing enrollment numbers for 1929). Publisher unknown (presumably New York: Marguerite Tuttle), b/w ill. p. 12.
Melvin P. Lader. “Arshile Gorky: A Modern Artist in the Academic Tradition / Arshile Gorky: Un Artista Moderno Nella Tradizione Accademica,” in Arshile Gorky: Works on Paper / Opere su Carta. Exhibition catalogue. Rome: Edizioni Carte Segrete, 1992, b/w ill. p. 17.
Matthew Spender. “Origines et Développement de L’oeuvre Dessiné de Arshile Gorky / Quellen und Entwicklung von Arshile Gorky’s Zeichnerischem Werk,” in Arshile Gorky: Œuvres sur Papier, 1929-1947 / Arbeiten auf Papier, 1929-1947. Exhibition catalogue. Lausanne: Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 1990, fig. 1, b/w ill.
This drawing is known only through reproductions in two course catalogues for the Grand Central School of Art, where Gorky became a full faculty member in 1926. The biography that appears in both catalogues is almost entirely fabricated: “Born in Nizhni Novgorod, Russia. Studied in the School of Nizhni Novgorod; Julien Academy, Paris, under Albert Paul Laurens; and also in New York and Boston. Member of Allied Artists of America. Represented in many exhibitions.” The birth place that Gorky cites most likely pays homage to the writer Maxim Gorky, who was born in Nizhni Novgorod in 1868. As it is now well known, the artist falsely reported in 1926 that he was the cousin of this famed Russian writer. (1)
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