Provenance
Valentine Gallery, New York.
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Norfolk, Virginia.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 16 February 1950, lot 70, sold by the above.
Private collection.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 13 May 1966, lot 92.
Mari and James A. Michener, Austin, Texas, acquired from the above.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1968.
Literature
E.A. Powell III, The James A. Michener Collection: Twentieth Century American Painting, Austin, Texas, 1977, p. 11.
A.D. Carlozzi, K. Baum, eds., Blanton Museum of Art: American Art Since 1900, Austin, Texas, 2006, p. 36, pl. 9, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Valentine Gallery, Paintings by Milton Avery, March 9-30, 1935.
Wallingford, Connecticut, The Choate School, The Chrysler Collection, 1936, no. 3.
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Selected Exhibition of the Walter P. Chrysler Collection, October 5-31, 1937, no. 74.
Austin, Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Resources from the Michener Collection, May 20-July 18, 1971.
Austin, Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Crosscurrents in American Painting from the Michener Collection, September 14-October 3, 1971.
Austin, Texas, University of Texas at Austin, The Michener Collection: American Paintings of the Twentieth Century, November 22, 1972-March 1, 1973.
Austin, Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Twentieth Century American Painting: The First Five Decades, from the Michener Collection, July 22,1974-January 5, 1975.
Austin, Texas, University of Texas at Austin; Summit, New Jersey, Summit Art Center, Milton Avery: Drawings and Paintings, December 5, 1976-April 17, 1977.