Maternity

Inscription: Signed (right side, incised within oval): J DE CREEFT

the artist (1923–42; sold to MMA)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art," December 7, 1942–February 22, 1943, unnumbered cat. (p. 24; awarded a First Prize).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Artists for Victory: Prize Winners," March 8–May 10, 1943, no catalogue.

Boston. Institute of Modern Art. "Artists for Victory: Prize Winners," May 22–June 19, 1943, no catalogue.

Roslyn Harbor, N. Y. Nassau County Museum of Art. "20th Century Sculpture," March 28–May 31, 1999, unnumbered cat. (p. 94; dated 1942).

A. Hyatt Mayor. Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. A Picture Book of the Prize Winners. New York, 1942, unpaginated, ill.

"Artists for Victory Score Victory in Metropolitan Exhibition." Art Digest 17 (December 15, 1942), p. 5.

Edward Alden Jewell. "Artists for Victory: Afterthoughts on the Huge Nation-Wide Survey at the Metropolitan Museum." New York Times (December 20, 1942), p. X9.

"Record Art Show Has $52,000 Prizes." New York Times (December 8, 1942), p. 30, ill.

"Metropolitan Museum Opens Artists for Victory Exhibition." New York Herald Tribune (December 8, 1942), p. 21.

Royal Cortissoz. "The Sculpture at the Metropolitan." New York Herald Tribune (December 13, 1942), p. E5, ill.

"The Met's Biggest." Newsweek 20 (December 14, 1942), p. 101.

Rosamund Frost. "Artists for Victory: Sculpture." Art News 41 (January 1–14, 1943), p. 15.

"Metropolitan Show: Modern Artists Invade the Museum." Life 14 (March 8, 1943), p. 42, ill.

Roy R. Neuberger. "Artists for Victory." Art in America 31 (January 1943), p. 54.

Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. "Sculpture Survey, 1872–1925." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 10 (December 1951), ill. p. 142.

Albert TenEyck Gardner. American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1965, p. 149, ill.

Joan M. Marter in American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Thayer Tolles. Vol. 2, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885. New York and New Haven, 2001, pp. 724–25, no. 361, ill.