Tulsa, Okla. Philbrook Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 14–June 9, 1991, no. 43.
Miami. Center for the Fine Arts. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 29–August 24, 1991, no. 43.
Omaha. Joslyn Art Museum. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 14–November 10, 1991, no. 43.
Tampa Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," December 14, 1991–February 8, 1992, no. 43.
Greenville, S. C. Greenville County Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 17–May 10, 1992, no. 43.
Madison, Wisc. Madison Art Center. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 6–August 2, 1992, no. 43.
Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids Art Museum. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 11–November 8, 1992, no. 43.
Miami. Art Museum at Florida International University. "David Bates," April 30–May 29, 1993, unnumbered cat. (p. 3).
Albany. New York State Museum. "20th Century American Landscapes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 31–October 14, 2001, unnum. brochure.
Gerrit Henry. "David Bates at Charles Cowles." Art in America 71 (November 1983), pp. 225–26.
William S. Lieberman inDialoghi nell'arte (Dialogues in Art). Exh. cat., Gubbio Palazzo Ducale. Gubbio, 1984, pp. 108–9, ill. (color).
William S. Lieberman. Nueva Pintura Narrativa: Coleccion del Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York. Exh. cat., Museo Rufino Tamayo. Mexico City, 1984, pp. 30, 41, no. 3, ill.
William S. Lieberman inNew Narrative Painting: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale . Fort Lauderdale, 1984, unpaginated, no. 3, ill. (overall and detail).
Marla Price. David Bates: Forty Paintings. Exh. cat., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Fort Worth, 1988, pp. 16, 85, no. 8, ill. p. 38 (color).
Lisa M. Messinger inThe Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1991, pp. 125–27, no. 43, ill. (color).
Lowery Stokes Sims inThe Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1991, p. 111.
Kyle MacMillan. "Landscape Show Gives Broad View." Omaha World-Herald (September 22, 1991), p. 13, ill.
Mary Ann Marger. "An Artistic Tribute to America." Tampa Bay Times (January 17, 1992), p. 32, ill. (detail in reverse).
Barbara Dayer Gallati. David Bates. Exh. cat., Art Museum at Florida International University. Miami, 1993, pp. 5, 22, ill. p. 3 (color).
Helen L. Kohen. "FIU Show Highlights Graphic Power of Painter's Man-in-Nature Themes." Miami Herald (May 2, 1993), p. 6I.
Lisa Mintz Messinger. 20th Century American Landscapes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. brochure, New York State Museum. Albany, 2001, unpaginated.
Shirley Reece-Hughes. "David Bates: Southern Culture, Places and Memories Through the Eyes of an Expressionist." PhD diss., University of Kansas, 2006, pp. 12, 69, 76, 83, 172–73, describes the picture's formal charicteristics and relates them to quilt designs and blues music.
Justin Spring. David Bates. Ed. Pam Hatley. Fort Worth, Tex., 2007, pp. 29–30, fig. 10 (color), identifies Claude Albritton as the sitter, a friend who first invited the artist to Grassy Lake, a nature preserve near Texarkana, Arkansas (the subject of this painting).
Norman Lewis (American, New York 1909–1979 New York)
1978
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