Mary Jane Langham, Los Angeles, California
Thence by descent
Sam Maloof, Sam Maloof: Woodworker, Tokyo, 1983, pp. 47, 61, 118–127 for various rocking chairs, including the present model
Jeremy Adamson, The Furniture of Sam Maloof, exh. cat., The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., 2001, inset and pp. 176, 179, 190, 192–193
Jeannine Falino, ed., Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design, exh. cat., Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2011, p. 240 for an early example of the model in the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York