Inscription: Signed and dated (lower edge center, in black marker): Jackson Pollock 38; (verso, lower right, in black marker): Jackson Pollock 38
the artist, Springs, N.Y. (until d. 1956; his estate, New York, 1956–62); Lee Krasner Pollock, New York (1962–82; her gift to MMA)
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Jackson Pollock," December 19, 1956–February 3, 1957, no. 38 (as "Drawing," 1938–43, lent by Lee Krasner Pollock, Springs, Long Island).
New York. Sidney Janis Gallery. "Drawings by Jackson Pollock," November 4–30, 1957, no catalogue (Ref. O'Connor and Thaw 1978 list as no. 9 [?]).
Düsseldorf. Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen. "Jackson Pollock," September 5–October 8, 1961, no. 46 (as "Drawing," 1938).
Kunsthaus Zürich. "Jackson Pollock," October 24–November 29, 1961, no. 46.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Jackson Pollock," April 5–June 4, 1967, no. 105 (as "Page from a Sketchbook," 1941, subsequently inscribed 1938, lent by the estate of the artist).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Jackson Pollock," July 9–September 3, 1967, no. 105.
Minneapolis. Walker Art Center. "Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper," February 11–March 19, 1968, not in catalogue.
College Park. University of Maryland Art Gallery. "Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper," April 1–22, 1968, not in catalogue.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. "Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper," May 14–June 16, 1968, not in catalogue.
Seattle Art Museum. "Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper," July 11–August 18, 1968, not in catalogue.
Baltimore Museum of Art. "Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper," September 8–October 6, 1968, not in catalogue.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. "Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper," October 21–November 18, 1968, not in catalogue.
Waltham, Mass. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. "Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper," January 20–February 16, 1969, not in catalogue.
Rome. Palazzo Venezia. "Jackson Pollock, opere 1930–1956," April–June 1983, unnumbered cat. (as "Pagina da un Album per Schizzi," 1938).
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. 18.
Tokyo. The Shoto Museum of Art. "Drawings Jackson Pollock: Loan Exhibition from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," August 20–September 29, 1985, no. 16 (as "Page from a Sketchbook").
Fukuoka Art Museum. "Drawings Jackson Pollock: Loan Exhibition from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 8–27, 1985, no. 16.
New York. Gagosian Gallery. "Jackson Pollock: Black Enamel Paintings," April–May 1990, no. 16 (as "Untitled").
Stuttgart. Württembergischer Kunstverein. "Jackson Pollock: Zeichnungen," October 11–December 2, 1990, nos. 12 and 13 (as "Skizzenbuchseite," 1938).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Jackson Pollock," November 1, 1998–February 2, 1999, nos. 43 and 44 (recto and verso; as "Untitled").
London. Tate Gallery. "Jackson Pollock," March 11–June 6, 1999, nos. 43 and 44.
Canberra. National Gallery of Australia. "Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles," October 4, 2002–January 27, 2003, no. 19.
Venice. Peggy Guggenheim Collection. "Jackson Pollock's 'Mural': Energy Made Visible," April 23–November 16, 2015, nos. 22, 23 (as "Untitled") [verso displayed in exhibition).
Lawrence Alloway. "Jackson Pollock." Paletten 1 (1961), ill. p. 84 (verso), calls it "Drawing" and dates it 1938.
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. 152, no. 612r/v, ill., consider the inscribed date of 1938 to be too early; note that the recto inscription in black magic marker has bled through to the verso; mention the binder holes along the top edge of the sheet.
Tilman Osterwold inJackson Pollock: Zeichnungen. Exh. cat., Württembergischer Kunstverein. Stuttgart, 1990, pp. 10, 17, 71 pls. 12 and 13.
Lisa Mintz Messinger inJackson Pollock: Zeichnungen. Exh. cat., Württembergischer Kunstverein. Stuttgart, 1990, pp. 62–63, 66.
Ben Heller. Jackson Pollock: Black Enamel Paintings. Exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery. New York, 1990, pp. 14, 88 no. 16 ill. (recto; color), lists it among the "most visible precursors of the Black Paintings".
David Anfam. Jackson Pollock's 'Mural': Energy Made Visible. Exh. cat., Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. New York, 2015, pp. 43, 141–42, nos. 22, 23, ill. p. 44 (color, recto and verso).
Jackson Pollock (American, Cody, Wyoming 1912–1956 East Hampton, New York)
ca. 1938–39
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