The Black Horse

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): Atherton / 1942

the artist, Ridgefield, Conn. (1942; 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. 1; as "The Black Horse—Imaginative Landscape," awarded a Fourth 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.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Painting, 1754–1954," December 18, 1953–September 1954, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Columbia Bicentennial Exhibition," October 28, 1954–April 18, 1955, no catalogue.

Norwich, Conn. Slater Memorial Museum. "A Survey of American Art," February 4–25, 1968, no. 29 (as "The Black Horse—Imaginative Landscape").

New York. Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch. "An American Dream World: Romantic Realism 1930–1955," January 30–March 5, 1975, unnum. brochure (as "Black Horse—Imaginative Landscape").

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Artists for Victory," October 1, 1996–January 12, 1997, extended to January 22, 1997, no catalogue.

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), pp. 6, 9, ill. p. 8.

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.

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

Alfred M. Frankfurter. "The Artists for Victory Exhibition: The Paintings." Art News 41 (January 1–14, 1943), p. 12, ill. p. 8.

Howard Devree. "American Survey: Metropolitan Traces 200 Years of Art—Three Landscapists—An Exotic." New York Times (December 20, 1953), p. X11.