Joshua Johnson

George C. Perine, Baltimore (acquired by 1949)

Norton Asner, Baltimore

Peter H. Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut (acquired by 1976)

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 26 October 1985, lot 32 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Storrs, The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut; Cooperstown, New York, The New York State Historical Association and Williamsburg, Virginia, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Nineteenth-Century Folk Painting: Our Spirited National Heritage, 1973-74, pl. 13, illustrated in color, cat. no. 46, p. 175 (spelled Joshua Johnston, titled Young Lady on a Red Sofa and dated circa 1810)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Atlanta, The High Museum of Art and The Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (and traveling), Two Centuries of Black American Art, 1976-77, no. 19, pp. 30 and 118; p. 82, illustrated in color (titled Young Lady On A Red Sofa and dated circa 1810)

Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue, 2014-16, pp. 28 and 71; pl. 29, illustrated

Paul F. Rovetti, "The Tillou Collection of Nineteenth Century American Folk Painting," American Art Review, vol. I, no. 5, July - October 1974, pp. 105-06, illustrated in color (spelled Joshua Johnston, titled Young Lady on a Red Sofa and dated circa 1810)

Louie Robinson, "Two Centuries of Black American Art," Ebony, vol. XXXII, no. 4, February 1977, p. 33, illustrated in color (titled Young Lady On A Red Sofa and dated circa 1810)

Exh. Cat., Baltimore, Maryland Historical Society; Williamsburg, Virginia, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center and New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art (and traveling), Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter, 1987-88, no. 83, p. 165, illustrated (titled Unidentified Lady)

David C. Driskell, The Other Side of Color: African American Art in the Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby, Jr, San Francisco, 2001, pl. 3, pp. 13-15, illustrated in color, pp. 187 and 209 (spelled Joshua Johnston)