Inscription: Signed and dated (upper right): Alston / '50
the artist, New York (1950–51; sold to MMA)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Painting Today, 1950: A National Competitive Exhibition," December 8, 1950–February 25, 1951, unnumbered cat. (pl. 42).
Nashville. Carl Van Vechten Gallery, Fisk University. "22nd Festival of Music and Art: Metropolitan Museum of Art Loan Exhibition," April 20–August 15, 1951, no catalogue.
Atlanta University. "22nd Festival of Music and Art: Metropolitan Museum of Art Loan Exhibition," September 1, 1951–January 30, 1952, no catalogue.
New Orleans. Dillard University. "22nd Festival of Music and Art: Metropolitan Museum of Art Loan Exhibition," February 1–April 30, 1952, no catalogue.
New York. John Heller Gallery. "Charles Alston," April 24–May 12, 1956, no. 1.
Lake Forest, Ill. Lake Forest College. "Soul Week '68: An Exploration into Afro-American Culture," January 22–February 3, 1968, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. "Selected Works by Black Artists from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 14–June 14, 1976, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Tribute to a Curator: Robert Beverly Hale," November 16, 1978–March 4, 1979, extended to March 18, 1979, no catalogue.
Pleasantville, N. Y. Reader's Digest. "Faces and Figures: Selected Works by Black Artists from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 12–April 1, 1988, brochure no. 1.
New York. Kenkeleba Gallery. "Charles Alston: Artist and Teacher," May 13–July 1, 1990, unnumbered cat. (pl. 24).
New York. Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College. "Reclaiming Artists of the New York School: Toward a More Inclusive View of the 1950s," March 18–April 22, 1994, no. 1.
Southampton, N. Y. Parrish Art Museum. "Dark Images, Bright Prospects: The Survival of the Figure After World War II. An Exhibition in Collaboration with Southampton Public Schools," February 9–March 29, 1997, unnumbered cat. (p. 47).
"Modern Paintings Bought by Museum." New York Times (February 8, 1951), p. 34.
"Notes." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 9 (February 1951), p. 144.
"7 U.S. Paintings Bought By Metropolitan Museum." New York Herald Tribune (February 8, 1951), p. 21, calls it "Paintings".
Vera Williams. "Exhibit Tied to Festival." Long Beach Press-Telegram (February 25, 1951), p. 54, calls it "Paintings".
E[mily]. G[enauer]. "Art Exhibition Notes: Alston at Heller." New York Herald Tribune (April 28, 1956), p. 11.
G. D. "Charles Alston." Arts 30 (May 1956), p. 56.
Lowery S. Sims. Selected Works by Black Artists from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. [New York], 1976, unpaginated.
Lowery Sims. "The Metropolitan: Collecting Black Art." Routes Magazine 3 (May 1980), p. 25.
Lowery S. Sims. Faces and Figures: Selected Works by Black Artists from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. brochure, Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, N.Y. 1988, unpaginated, no. 1, calls it "Untitled" in the text and describes it as "a late cubistic interpretation of the human figure".
Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson. A History of African-American Artists from 1792 to the Present. New York, 1993, pp. 265–66, ill.
Ann Eden Gibson. Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics. New Haven, 1997, p. 108, fig. 120.
Austin Porter. "Charles Henry Alston (1907–1977)." The Unforgettables: Expanding the History of American Art. Ed. Charles C. Eldredge. Oakland, 2022, pp. 169, 173, fig. 81 (color).
Charles Henry Alston (American, Charlotte, North Carolina 1907–1977 New York)
1935–43
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