As the Earth Sings - Pennsylvania Dutch Family

Inscription: Signed (in monogram): WWS

the artist, Allentown, Penn. (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. 31; awarded a Sixth 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.

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. 7.

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.

"Bill Swallow Wins $500 in Art Exhibit: Pennsylvania Dutch Family Group Goes To Metropolitan." Scranton Tribune (December 11, 1942), p. 22, ill.

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

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

"As the Earth Sings (Pennsylvania Dutch Family)." Magazine of Art 36 (January 1943), ill. p. 25.

"Pennsylvania in Terra Cotta." Philadelphia Inquirer (March 27, 1955), p. 13, ill., calls it "As the Earth Sings".

Albert TenEyck Gardner. American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1965, p. 184, ill.

Virginia Brainard Kunz. The Germans in America. Minneapolis, 1966, ill. p. 10.

Shirley Glubok. American Sculpture. New York, 1973, p. 25.

Donald M. Reynolds. Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition from the American Renaissance to the Millennium. New York, 1993, pp. 245–46, ill.