Kootz Gallery, New York (1950)
Fred Olsen, Guilford (acquired in 1950)
Solomon & Co. Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1975
New York, Kootz Gallery, Hans Hofmann: New Paintings, October 24–November 13, 1950, no. 2
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, American Paintings and Sculpture from Connecticut Collections, July 24–September 9, 1962
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, 20th Century Painting and Sculpture, October 28–December 6, 1965, no. 27, n.p.
Washington, D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Hans Hofmann: A Retrospective Exhibition, October 14, 1976–April 3, 1977, no. 15, pp. 38, 58 (illustrated, p. 58)
Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, The Long Island Collections, A Century of Art: 1880–1980, April 20–July 18, 1982, no. 103, p. 73 (illustrated)
New York, James Goodman Gallery, Inc., Reframing the Brushstroke: Kline to Lichtenstein, Hofmann to Dine, November 2–29, 2017
James Fitzsimmons, “Hofmann’s Nature,” The Art Digest, vol. 25, no. 3, November 1, 1950, p. 17
Betty Holliday, “Reviews and Previews,” ARTnews, vol. 49, no. 3, November 1, 1950, p. 48
Sam Hunter, Hans Hofmann, New York, 1963, pl. 32, pp. 7, 86 (illustrated, p. 86; erroneously catalogued as oil on plywood)
"Hans Hofmann," Art in America, January–February, 1974, p. 9 (illustrated)
Suzi Villiger, ed., Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume II: Catalogue Entries P1–P846 (1901–1951), London, 2014, no. P790, p. 483 (illustrated)