Pigeons on a Roof

Inscription: Signed (lower left): E.SPRUCE

the artist, Austin, Tex. (1947–49; sold through the Mortimer Levitt Gallery, New York to MMA)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 11).

American Federation of Arts circulating exhibition. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," January 1951–November 1952 (lent to numerous U.S. venues, including those listed below), no catalogue (checklist no. 19).

Hagerstown, Md. Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," April 1951.

Nashville. Watkins Institute. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," November 5–25, 1951.

Montgomery, Ala. Montgomery Museum of Art. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," December 1951.

Abilene, Tex. Abilene Museum of Fine Arts. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," April 7–20, 1952.

Shreveport. Louisiana State Exhibit Museum. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," May 11–25, 1952.

South Hadley, Mass. Dwight Art Memorial, Mount Holyoke College. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," November 6–25, 1952.

Greenvale, N. Y. Hillwood Art Gallery, School of the Arts, C. W. Post Center, Long Island University. "'The Expressionist Vision': A Central Theme in New York in the 1940s," December 16, 1983–February 5, 1984, no. 49.

Robert Beverly Hale. 100 American Painters of the 20th Century: Works Selected from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1950, ill. p. 101.

"Local Painter in Metropolitan." Sunday American-Statesman (February 19, 1950), p. 1B.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Miniatures. Vol. 17, album W, Twentieth-Century American Painters. New York, 1950, unpaginated, no. 23, ill. (color).

"Paintings of Famed American Artists to Be Shown Monday." Abilene Reporter-News (April 6, 1952), p. 7-B.

Piri Halasz. "Manhattan Museums: The 1940s vs. the 1980s; Part Two: The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Arts Magazine 59 (March 1985), p. 92.

Cecilia Steinfeldt. Art for History's Sake: The Texas Collection of the Witte Museum. San Antonio, 1993, pp. 248, 249 n. 19.

Shirley Reece-Hughes. Texas Made Modern: The Art of Everett Spruce. Exh. cat., Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth. College Station, Tex., 2020, pp. 37, 64, 77–78, 140, colorpl. 22.