To Fight Again

Inscription: Signed and dated (on back in corner, in script): Ferber 40

the artist, New York (1940–42; 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. 25; awarded a Fifth 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.

Minneapolis. Walker Art Center. "The Sculpture of Herbert Ferber," April 15–May 27, 1962, no. 17 (dated 1936–37).

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. 27).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Artists for Victory," October 1, 1996–January 12, 1997, extended to January 22, 1997, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Human Figure in Transition, 1900–1945: American Sculpture from the Museum's Collection," April 15–September 28, 1997, extended to March 29, 1998, unnum. brochure.

Greenwich, Conn. Bruce Museum of Arts and Science. "The American Avant-Garde: A Decade of Change 1936–1946," October 1–December 31, 2000, no. 13.

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), pp. 7–9, ill.

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.

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

Rosamund Frost. "Artists for Victory: Sculpture." Art News 41 (January 1–14, 1943), p. 15.

Albert TenEyck Gardner. American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1965, p. 179, ill.

Grace Glueck. "Of American Sculptors and the Human Figure." New York Times (June 6, 1997), p. C22.

Joan Pachner. Herbert Ferber: Painting and Sculpture of the 1960s–1970s. Exh. cat., Valerie Carberry Gallery. Chicago, 2013, p. 3, fig. 2.