Romare Bearden

Barnett-Aden Gallery, Washington, D.C. (acquired by 1949)

Acquired from the above in August 1978 by the present owner

New York, Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New Paintings by Bearden, February - March 1947, no. 4

Washington, D.C., Barnett-Aden Gallery, Sixth Anniversary Exhibition: Contemporary American Art, October 1949 - November 1949, no. 1 (titled Poor Hungry Souls)

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Anacostia Neighborhood Museum and Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Barnett-Aden Collection: 100 Years of Multi-Ethnic Art, January 1974 - February 1975, no. 10, p. 42, illustrated

Detroit Institute of Arts and New York, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Romare Bearden: Origins and Progressions, September 1986 - March 1987, no. 17, p. 46

Myron Schwartzman, Romare Bearden: His Life & Art, New York, 1990, p. 159, illustrated in color

Michael Ann Holly and Keith Moxey, eds., Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2002, p. 35

Ruth E. Fine and Jacqueline R. Francis, eds., Romare Bearden: American Modernist, Washington, D.C. and New Haven, 2011, p. 171

Robert G. O′Meally, ed., The Romare Bearden Reader, Durham and London, 2019, pp. 223 and 382