Item Information
Title: Interview about Arshile Gorky with Mougouch Gorky
Date: 1993-1997
Physical Details: 3 sound cassettes (microcassette) ; 4 hr., 23 min., 41 sec.
Description: Recording has loud hum, background noise, muffled speech and very low sound quality. Portions of speech are difficult or impossible to understand. Mougouch Gorky, interviewed by Hayden Herrera, discusses her experiences with Arshile Gorky. Free-flowing discussion topics are wide-ranging and include family life, traveling, socializing and relationships with other artists, Arshile Gorky's personality, drawing and painting methods, and his artwork and its subject matter. Some of Herrera's questions are for checking facts from other sources. People mentioned include Pierre Matisse, Miriam Hopkins. Numerous people are mentioned by first name only. See also items 25056, 25073, 25083 and 25089 for interviews with Mougouch Gorky. Date range is based on Herrera's other interviews with Mougouch Gorky, and Herrera stating the date July 15, 1997, on Tape 03, Side 02 for an unrelated recording.
Creator: Gorky, Mougouch, 1921-2013
Forms part of: Hayden Herrera papers, 1926-2006, bulk 1984-1997
Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
Citation Information: Mougouch Gorky and Hayden Herrera. Interview about Arshile Gorky with Mougouch Gorky, 1993-1997. Hayden Herrera papers, 1926-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Availability: This item has been digitally reformatted. It is available by requesting an appointment in the Archives of American Art's reading rooms, or in certain situations as a Reproduction Request.
Digital ID: 25065