Last of the Wild Horses

Inscription: Signed, dated, and inscribed (lower right): Mechau / Colorado 37

the artist, Redstone, Colo. (1937–38; sold through the Art Institute of Chicago to MMA)

Washington, D. C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "The Fifteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings," March 28–May 9, 1937, no. 86 (as "The Last of the Wild Horses").

Pittsburgh. Carnegie Institute. "The 1937 International Exhibition of Paintings," October 14–December 5, 1937, no. 5 (as "The Last of the Wild Horses").

New York. National Academy of Design. "One Hundred and Thirteenth Annual Exhibition," March 16–April 13, 1938, no. 61.

Art Institute of Chicago. "American Paintings and Sculpture: 49th Annual Exhibition," October 20–December 4, 1938, no. 138.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "National Art Week and the Museum: Paintings by Living Americans," November 25–December 1, 1940, no catalogue.

Donald J. Bear. "Some Younger Artists of Colorado." Parnassus 9 (April 1937), ill. p. 11.

"Academy of Design Awards 18 Prizes." New York Times (March 14, 1938), p. 11, ill.

Martha Candler Cheney. Modern Art in America. New York, 1939, pl. 62.

"Art Throughout America. New York: More Contemporary American Works for the Metropolitan." Art News 37 (February 11, 1939), p. 16.

"Notes: Hearn Purchases." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 34 (February 1939), p. 49.

Whitney N. Morgan. "Recent American Museum Acquisitions." Parnassus 11 (March 1939), p. 27.

"7 U.S. Canvases Are Bought by Metropolitan." New York Herald Tribune (February 6, 1939), p. 11.

Cile M. Bach. Frank Mechau: Artist of Colorado. Boulder, 2016, pp. 47, 59, 88, 90, 114, 126, ill. pp. 48–49 (color), calls it "The Last of the Wild Horses".