The Furniture Factory

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): Bumpei Usui / 1925

[Salander Galleries, New York, probably in 1979]; private collection, New York (until 1989); private collection, New Jersey (1989–2014; sold through 511 Gallery, New York to MMA)

New York. Anderson Galleries. "Spring Salon," April 28–May 16, 1925, no. 312 (as "Machine Shop") [possibly this picture].

New York. Art Center. "The First Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Japanese Artists in New York," February 16–March 5, 1927.

New York. Salander Galleries. "Bumpei Usui: Paintings 1925–1949," April 17–May 25, 1979, no. 2 (as "Furniture Factory").

Kunsthalle Mannheim. "Constructing the World: Art and Economy 1919–1939," October 12, 2018–February 3, 2019, unnumbered cat. (p. 169).

"Art." New Yorker 1 (May 23, 1925), p. 18, in a review of Exh. New York 1925, calls it "Machine Shop" [possibly this picture].

"The Art Gallery." Brooklyn Life 71 (May 16, 1925), p. 16, notes that is included in Exh. New York 1925 as "Machine Shop" [possibly this picture].

M. P. "The Art Galleries." New Yorker 3 (February 26, 1927), p. 72, in a review of Exh. New York 1927, notes that "of the rebel group we found the carpenter shop of Bunpei [sic] Usui the best realized".

Randall Griffey in "Recent Acquisitions. A Selection: 2012–2014." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 72 (Fall 2014), p. 73, ill. (color).

Randy Kennedy. "When Art's Muse Worked Up a Sweat." New York Times (September 4, 2015), p. C26, ill.

Daniel Grant. "New on the Walls: With the Economy Improving, Museums Go on a Buying Spree." New York Observer (February 2, 2015), pp. 33–34, ill. (color).

Roberta Smith. "A Trans-Atlantic View of Modernism." New York Times (January 9, 2015), p. C30.