Inscription: Signed, dated, and inscribed (verso): Kitaj Amerika / (John Ford on his deathbed) / 83-84
the artist, London (until 1986; sold through Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd. to MMA)
Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd. "R. B. Kitaj," November 8–December 7, 1985, no. 52 (as "Amerika [John Ford on his Death Bed]"; lent courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
New York. Marlborough Gallery, Inc. "R. B. Kitaj," March 1986, no. 52.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "London, Glasgow, New York: Recent Acquisitions," April 13–July 31, 1988, no catalogue.
London. Tate Gallery. "R. B. Kitaj: A Retrospective," June 16–September 4, 1994, no. 66.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "R. B. Kitaj: A Retrospective," October 23, 1994–January 8, 1995, no. 66.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "R. B. Kitaj: A Retrospective," February 17–May 14, 1995, no. 66.
Marco Livingstone. R.B. Kitaj. New York, 1985, pp. 41, 160, no. 362, pl. 148, calls it "Amerika (John Ford on His Death Bed)" and locates it in the collection of Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd.
Lisa M. Messinger in "Twentieth Century Art." Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1985–1986. New York, 1986, p. 57, ill. (color).
Elyse Topalian. "Modern Art in the Met." Apollo 124 (October 1986), p. 362, colorpl. 21.
William S. Lieberman in20th Century Art: Selections from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Vol. 2, Painting: 1945–1985. New York, 1986, pp. 7, 60–61, ill. (color, overall and detail).
John Russell. "Into the Labyrinth of Dreams with Kitaj." New York Times (March 16, 1986), p. 102.
Marco Livingstone. "London. Kitaj at Marlborough." Burlington Magazine 128 (January 1986), p. 53.
Israel Shenker. "Always Against the Grain." Art News 85 (March 1986), p. 85.
Michael Brenson. "Large Spaces, Large Questions at The Met." New York Times (March 15, 1987), pp. 35–36, ill. (installation view).
Jed Perl. "People Are Talking About. . .Art: Gamble at the Met." Vogue 177 (January 1987), p. 40, calls it "Amerika: John Ford on his Deathbed".
Sylvia Hochfield. "Thoroughly Modern Met." Art News 86 (February 1987), ill. p. 114 (color).
William Feaver. "London. R.B. Kitaj." Art News 93 (October 1994), p. 197.
Norbert Lynton. "Kitaj's Fork." Modern Painters 7 (Autumn 1994), p. 96.
Christine Schwartz Hartley. "Ghosts on the Palette." New York Times (July 16, 1995), p. BR20.
Alan Woods. "Painting with Banging Doors: Art and Allusion in Kitaj and Hockney." Cambridge Quarterly 24, no. 4 (1995), pp. 335–36.
Ken Johnson. "R.B. Kitaj: Views of a Fractured Century." Art in America 83 (March 1995), p. 125.
Martin Pops. "R.B. Kitaj at the Met: The Home-Field Advantage." Salmagundi no. 109/110 (Winter–Spring 1996), p. 76.
Joseph Giovannini. "At Home with R.B. Kitaj: A Second Exile, His Rage Intact." New York Times (March 19, 1998), p. F13.
Alan Woods. "Shootism, or, whitehair movie maniac Kitaj and Hollywood kulchur." Critical Kitaj: Essays on the Work of R. B. Kitaj. Ed. James Aulich and John Lynch. New Brunswick, N.J., 2000, pp. 175–79, fig. 37, calls it "Amerika (John Ford on his Deathbed)".
Aaron Rosen. "The Diasporist Unpacks: The Epigonic Rummagings of R.B. Kitaj." Studia Rosenthaliana 40 (2007–2008), p. 274.
Edward Hopper (American, Nyack, New York 1882–1967 New York)
1930
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