Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale. "Jackson Pollock–A Painter's Drawings 1930–1956," January 4–29, 1984, unnum. checklist.
Des Moines Art Center. "Jackson Pollock Drawings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 15–February 24, 1985, no. 4.
Tokyo. The Shoto Museum of Art. "Drawings Jackson Pollock: Loan Exhibition from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," August 20–September 29, 1985, no. 8 (as "Figure Composition," ca. 1933–39).
Fukuoka Art Museum. "Drawings Jackson Pollock: Loan Exhibition from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 8–27, 1985, no. 8.
Roslyn Harbor, N. Y. Nassau County Museum of Art. "Intimates and Confidants in Art: Husbands, Wives, Lovers and Friends," February 28–May 23, 1993, unnumbered cat. (p. 65; as "Figure Composition").
Madrid. Fundación Juan March. "Expresionismo Abstracto: Obra Sobre Papel, Colección The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York," May 9–July 2, 2000, no. 42.
Hanover, N.H. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. "Men of Fire: José Clemente Orozco and Jackson Pollock," April 7–June 17, 2012, unnumbered cat. (fig. 61).
The Springs, East Hampton. Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. "Men of Fire: José Clemente Orozco and Jackson Pollock," August 2–October 27, 2012, unnumbered cat. (fig. 61).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Thomas Hart Benton’s 'America Today' Mural Rediscovered," September 30, 2014–April 19, 2015, no catalogue (see MMA Bulletin 72, Winter 2015).
Bryan Robertson. Jackson Pollock. New York, 1960, pp. 23–24, pl. 82.
Francis Valentine O'Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, ed. Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works. Vol. 3, Drawings, 1930–1956. New Haven, 1978, p. 71, no. 485, ill., date it ca. 1933–39.
Ellen G. Landau. Jackson Pollock. New York, 1989, p. 51, ill. p. 53 (color).
Constance Schwartz inIntimates and Confidants in Art: Husbands, Wives, Lovers and Friends. Exh. cat., Nassau County Museum of Art. Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., 1993, p. 6.
Franklin Hill Perrell inIntimates and Confidants in Art: Husbands, Wives, Lovers and Friends. Exh. cat., Nassau County Museum of Art. Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., 1993, pp. 17, 80, ill. p. 65, dates it 1933–39.
Ellen G. Landau inSiqueiros/Pollock: Pollock/Siqueiros. Exh. cat., Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Vol. 2, "Essays/Dokumentation."Cologne, 1995, p. 39, fig. 2, dates it ca. 1933–39.
Lisa Mintz Messinger inMen of Fire: José Clemente Orozco and Jackson Pollock. Exh. cat., Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. Hanover, N.H., 2012, pp. 37, 87, fig. 61 (color).
Jackson Pollock (American, Cody, Wyoming 1912–1956 East Hampton, New York)
ca. 1938–39
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