Gustav Kahnweiler, Frankfurt; [Galerie Simon, Paris, until 1922; sold in September 1922, through the Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, to Thayer]; Scofield Thayer, Vienna and New York (1922–d. 1982; on extended loan to the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., as part of the Dial Collection, 1931–82; his bequest to MMA)
New York. Montross Gallery. "Original Paintings, Drawings, and Engravings Being Exhibited with the Dial Folio 'Living Art'," January 26–February 14, 1924, no catalogue (typed checklist no. 11; as "Les Collines").
Rochester, N. Y. Memorial Art Gallery. "The Dial Portfolio of "Living Art"," February–March 1924, no. 66 (as "Les Collines").
Worcester Art Museum. "Exhibition of the Dial Collection of Paintings, Engravings, and Drawings by Contemporary Artists," March 5–30, 1924, no. 8 (as "Les Collines").
Northampton, Mass. Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College. "The Dial Collection," May 1924, no catalogue.
Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 25.
Worcester Art Museum. "Selections from the Dial Collection," November 13–30, 1965, unnum. checklist.
Scofield Thayer. Living Art: Twenty Facsimile Reproductions after Paintings, Drawings and Engravings and Ten Photographs after Sculpture by Contemporary Artists. New York, 1923, paintings section, colorpl. 4, calls it "Les Collines".
Elie Faure. A. Derain. Paris, 1923, pl. 32.
Thomas Craven. "Living Art." Dial 76 (February 1924), p. 183.
Henry McBride. "Modern Art." Dial 76 (February 1924), p. 208.
"'Living Art' Folio and Originals Seen." Art News 22 (February 2, 1924), p. 5.
[Elisabeth Luther Cary]. "The World of Art: Modern Art of One Kind and Another." New York Times (January 27, 1924), p. SM10.
Margaret Breuning. "New York Art Galleries Crowded with Many Shows. Living Art." New York Evening Post (February 2, 1924), p. [14].
Dial 77 (September 1924), ill. p. 271 (color), calls it "Les Collines".
Arthur Millier. "Many Paintings, a Few Facsimiles." Los Angeles Sunday Times (June 15, 1924), p. 28.
E. B. K. "Living Art." Century Magazine 108 (May 1924), p. 144.
Walter Pach. "Living Art." Freeman 8 (March 5, 1924), pp. 620–21.
Herbert J. Seligmann. "Living Art for Americans." Nation 118 (April 9, 1924), p. 403.
"Modern Art Spirit Seen in Collection." Worcester Daily Telegram (March 6, 1924), p. 4.
Carl Einstein. Die Kunst des 20.Jahrhunderts. Berlin, 1926, p. 560, ill. p. 215, calls it "Landschaft" and erroneously locates it still in the collection of Gustav Kahnweiler, Frankfurt.
Louisa Dresser inThe Dial and the Dial Collection. Exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, Mass., 1959, p. 66, no. 25.
Nicholas Joost. Scofield Thayer and The Dial: An Illustrated History. Carbondale, Ill., 1964, pp. 229, 238.
Nicholas Joost. "The Dial Collection: Tastes and Trends of the 'Twenties." Apollo 94 (December 1971), p. 494.
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