Arshile Gorky and the Whitney Museum of American Art by Michael FitzGerald

The Frances Mulhall Achilles Library at the Whitney Museum of American Art contains an archive of documents related to the rise of modern art and artists in America. In 2000, the art historian Michael FitzGerald examined one set of papers in the Archives, consisting of correspondence, museum records, and clippings documenting the career of the painter Arshile Gorky and his relationship with the Whitney Museum.

In the illustrated essay that follows, FitzGerald traces Gorky's association with the Whitney Museum and some of its supporters through original letters and copies of documents given to the Archives by Matthew Spender, the artist's son-in-law.



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The Archive Research Project is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.