Gateway

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower center): Dehner / '79

the artist, New York (1979; sold through Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, New York to MMA)

New York. Parsons–Dreyfuss Gallery. "Dorothy Dehner: Sculpture and Drawings," February 20–March 10, 1979, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Recent Acquisitions: Twentieth Century Art Department," October 16, 1979–January 30, 1980, no catalogue.

New Brunswick, N. J. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University. "Dorothy Dehner and David Smith: Their Decades of Search and Fulfillment," January 15–March 4, 1984, no. 29.

Saratoga Springs, N. Y. The Skidmore College Art Gallery. "Dorothy Dehner and David Smith: Their Decades of Search and Fulfillment," April 19–May 13, 1984, no. 29.

Allentown, Penn. Muhlenberg College, Martin Art Gallery. "Dorothy Dehner: Sculpture and Works on Paper," April 15–May 31, 1988, no. 28.

Roslyn Harbor, N. Y. Nassau County Museum of Art. "Intimates and Confidants in Art: Husbands, Wives, Lovers and Friends," February 28–May 23, 1993, unnumbered cat. (p. 62).

Hilton Kramer in "Critics' Choices: What's Special This Holiday Weekend." New York Times (November 23, 1979), p. C16.

Joan M. Marter. "Dorothy Dehner ." Woman's Art Journal 1 (Autumn 1980–Winter 1981), p. 50, fig. 3, calls it "Gateway #2".

Joan Marter. Dorothy Dehner and David Smith: Their Decades of Search and Fulfillment. Exh. cat., Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University. New Brunswick, N. J., 1984, pp. 28, 44, no. 29, fig. 26.