Study for Mother and Son, Arshile Gorky, c. 1936
Arshile Gorky, portraitArshile GorkyAmerican, 1904–1948

Study for Mother and Son

c. 1936 · Drawing

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Where is “Study for Mother and Son” now? Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Not on view at present. Checked September 25, 2026.

Whitney Museum of American Art

New York, United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

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99.49a-b

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In the life of Arshile Gorky

The whole life
  1. 1930s

    Collaboration with Davis, de Kooning and Graham

    In the 1930s Gorky worked closely with Stuart Davis, Willem de Kooning and John Graham.

  2. 1935

    Contract with the Guild Art Gallery

    Gorky signed a three-year contract with the Guild Art Gallery in New York, co-owned by Anna Walinska and Margaret Lefranc but funded and directed by Lefranc. The gallery organized his first solo exhibition in New York, “Abstract Drawings by Arshile Gorky”.

  3. 1935

    Joins the WPA Federal Art Project

    Gorky became one of the first artists employed by the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration; it later came to include Alice Neel, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Diego Rivera and Mark Rothko.

  4. 1938

    Major exhibition at the Boyer Galleries

    A large exhibition of Gorky’s work opened at the Boyer Galleries in New York.

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