Jacob Lawrence

The Downtown Gallery, New York (acquired by 1950)

Edith Gregory Halpert, New York

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 14 March 1973, lot 194 (consigned by the estate of above)

Dr. John J. McDonough, Youngstown (acquired from the above)

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 22 March 1978, lot 61 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Long Island (acquired from the above)

Christie's, New York, 30 September 1988, lot 422 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

James Johnson Sweeney, "Sweeney setting his American Scene," ARTnews, vol. 49, issue 3, May 1950, pp. 18-19, illustrated

Leslie Cheek, Jr., "One-man Direction Gives a New Cast to Virginia's Biennial Shot," The Art Digest, vol. 24, issue 15, 1 May 1950, p. 7, illustrated

Ralph M. Pearson, The Modern Renaissance in American Art: Presenting the Work and Philosophy of Fifty-Four Distinguished Artists, New York 1954, p. 167

Fran Preisman, "The John J. McDonough Collection," Artweek, vol. 6, issue 26, 26 July 1975, p. 4

Peter T. Nesbett and Michelle DuBois, Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999): A Catalogue Raisonné, Seattle 2000, no. P50-02, p. 114, illustrated

Patricia Hills, Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence, Berkeley and Los Angeles 2009, pp. 215, 348

New York, The Downtown Gallery, Aquamedia, February - March 1950, no. 12, n.p.

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, American Painting 1950, April - June 1950, n.p.

New York, The Downtown Gallery, Jacob Lawrence, October - November 1950, no. 5, n.p.

New York, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members, Recipients of Honors, and Childe Hassam Fund Purchases, May - June 1953, no. 42, n.p.

New York, The Downtown Gallery, Aquamedia–Modern Masters, January 1964

Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, Image to Abstraction, November - January 1967, n.p.

New Orleans Museum of Art; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego; San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute; Little Rock, Arkansas Arts Center; Greensburg, The Westmoreland County Museum of Art; Raleigh, The North Carolina Museum of Art; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Art Center and Youngstown, The Butler Institute of American Art, A Panorama of American Painting: The John J. McDonough Collection, April 1975 - October 1976, pl. 59, no. 31, pp. 38-39 and 117, illustrated in color