Male Ruffed Grouse in the Forest

the artist, Monadnock, N. H. (until 1916; sold to MMA)

New London, Conn. Lyman Allyn Museum. "Abbot H. Thayer, 1849–1921," January 15–February 12, 1961, no. 54.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America," December 8, 1966–January 29, 1967, no. 203.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present," September 2–October 24, 1976, unnumbered cat. (fig. 236).

New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present," November 23, 1976–January 23, 1977, unnumbered cat.

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present," February 20–April 17, 1977, unnumbered cat.

Minneapolis. James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History. "Wildlife Art in America," February 26–May 15, 1994, unnumbered cat. (p. 39).

Washington, D. C. Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery. "Abbott Thayer: The Nature of Art," April 23–September 6, 1999, no catalogue.

Gerald H. Thayer. Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of Disguise Through Color and Pattern: Being a Summary of Abbott H. Thayer's Discoveries. New York, 1909, pp. 38–40, colorpl II.

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present. Exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts. New York, 1976, pp. 274, 430, fig. 236 (color).

Mary Sayre Haverstock. An American Bestiary. New York, 1979, pp. 76–77, 79, ill. (color).

Kathleen A. Foster. "American Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 37 (Spring 1980), p. 1, ill. (color).