The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
Private Collection, Massachusetts;
[Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM];
Private Collection, Texas;
[Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY];

New York. Whitney Studio Club. Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Stuart Davis. December 8-22, 1926, no. 36.

London. The Leicester Galleries. Six Decades of American Art (in association with the Downtown Gallery, New York). July 14-August 18, 1965, cat. no. 9, ill.

Denver. Denver Art Museum. Picturesque Images of Taos and Santa Fe. December 1, 1972-March 17, 1973.

Los Angeles. Esther-Robles Gallery. Stuart Davis: Paintings – Early Twenties. April 6-May 31, 1979, no. 11.

New York. Borgenicht Gallery. Stuart Davis: Still Life Paintings, 1922/24. September 27-October 23, 1980, ill., np.

New York. Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. Stuart Davis: The Breakthrough Years, 1922-1924. November 4-December 26, 1987, cat. no. 24, ill.

Tulsa. Philbrook Museum of Art.  From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection (February 8-May 3, 2015); Phoenix. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).

Corpus Christi. The Art Museum of South Texas. Masterpieces of American Modernism from the Vilcek Collection of American Art. September 13, 2018-January 6, 2019.

Downtown Gallery Records. Photographs of Works of Art: Davis, Stuart (2 of 2). Box 110, Reel 5648, Frame 134. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Downtown Gallery Records. Artist Notebooks. Davis, Stuart, undated, 1910‐1970. Box 34, Reel 5568, Frame 414. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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