Figure of Dignity - Irish Mountain Goat

Alexander Shilling Fund, New York (until 1941; their gift to MMA)

Arts Club of Chicago. "Sculpture by John B. Flannagan," March 16–30, 1934 (as "Goat").

New York. The Sculptor's Guild. "Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition," April 12–May 1938, unnumbered cat. (p. 14; as "Goat") [installed at the northeast corner of Park Avenue at 39th Street].

Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Sculpture International: An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture Organized by the Fairmont Park Art Association," May 18–October 1, 1940, no. 151 (as "Prancing Goat").

Pittsburgh. Carnegie Institute. "An Exhibition of American Sculpture," January 14–February 28, 1941, no. 5 (as "Irish Mountain Goat").

Museum of Modern Art, New York. "The Sculpture of John B. Flannagan," October 28–November 29, 1942, no. 20 (as "Figure of Dignity").

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Sculpture from the Collections of the Whitney Museum and the Metropolitan Museum," June 20, 1947–May 31, 1950, no catalogue.

Queens Museum. "American Sculpture: Folk and Modern," March 12–May 8, 1977, no. 32.

Hempstead, N. Y. Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University. "The Coming of Age of American Sculpture: The First Decades of the Sculptors Guild, 1930s–1950s," February 3–March 18, 1990, unnumbered cat. (p. 11).

Preston Remington. "A Sculpture by John B. Flannagan." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 36 (April 1941), p. 101, ill.

Carlyle Burrows. "Art of the Week: Some Notes on the New Summer Displays." New York Herald Tribune (June 22, 1947), p. C5.

Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. "Sculpture Survey, 1872–1925." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 10 (December 1951), ill. p. 143.

Albert TenEyck Gardner. American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1965, pp. 168–69, ill.

Rosalind E. Krauss in 200 Years of American Sculpture. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1976, p. 339, no. 67, dates it about 1932–33.

Patricia Mainardi. American Sculpture: Folk and Modern. Exh. cat., Queens Museum. Flushing, 1977, unpaginated, no. 32, ill.

Jennifer Gordon Lovett et al. John Storrs and John Flannagan: Sculpture and Works on Paper. Exh. cat., The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, 1980, pp. 28–29, ill.

Barbara Burn, ed. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. 2nd rev. ed. (1st ed., 1983). New York, 1994, p. 454, no. 41, ill. (color).