Inscription: Signed (lower right): Baziotes; dated (verso): 1950
the artist, New York (1950; sold through the Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York to MMA)
New York. Kootz Gallery. "Baziotes: New Paintings," February 7–27, 1950.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 3).
Berlin. Rathaus Schöneberg. "Amerikanische Malerei: Werden und Gegenwart," September 20–October 5, 1951, no. 18 (as "Der Drache").
Berlin. Schloss Charlottenburg. "Amerikanische Malerei: Werden und Gegenwart," October 10–24, 1951, no. 18.
Vienna. Akademie der Bildenden Künst. "Amerikanische Malerei: Werden und Gegenwart," November 3–18, 1951, no. 18.
Munich. Galerie des Amerika Hauses. "Amerikanische Malerei: Werden und Gegenwart," November 24–December 14, 1951, no. 18.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "15 Americans," April 9–July 27, 1952, unnumbered cat. (p. 45).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Painting, 1754–1954," December 18, 1953–September 1954, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Columbia Bicentennial Exhibition," October 28, 1954–April 18, 1955, no catalogue.
Brussels. Universal and International Exhibition. "Seventeen Contemporary American Painters," April 17–October 18, 1958, no. 112 (as "The Dragon").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum's Collections," October 1–December 7, 1969, no catalogue.
New York. Marlborough Gallery. "William Baziotes: Late Work 1946–1962," February 11–March 6, 1971, no. 4.
Philadelphia. Peale House Galleries, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. "William Baziotes," September 10–October 13, 1971, no catalogue.
San Juan. El Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. "Arte del Siglo Veinte: EE.UU. del Museo Metropolitano de Arte," April 19–May 31, 1974, no. 22.
Newport Beach, Calif. Newport Harbor Art Museum. "William Baziotes: A Retrospective Exhibition," March 24–June 4, 1978, no. 14 (dated ca. 1950).
University of Texas, Austin. "William Baziotes: A Retrospective Exhibition," June 18–August 6, 1978, no. 14.
College Park. University of Maryland Art Gallery. "William Baziotes: A Retrospective Exhibition," August 24–October 7, 1978, no. 14.
Ithaca, N. Y. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. "William Baziotes: A Retrospective Exhibition," October 25–December 10, 1978, no. 14.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selection Three: Twentieth-Century Art," October 22, 1985–January 26, 1986, no catalogue.
Madrid. Fundación Juan March. "The Irascibles: Painters Against the Museum, New York, 1950," March 6–13, 2020 [intended closing date June 7, 2020], no. 1.
Robert Beverly Hale. 100 American Painters of the 20th Century: Works Selected from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1950, ill. p. 108.
Emily Genauer. "Art and Artists: Metropolitan Museum, Like Whitman, Sings of America in Major Exhibition." New York Herald Tribune (June 18, 1950), p. D5.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Miniatures. Vol. 17, album W, Twentieth-Century American Painters. New York, 1950, unpaginated, no. 24, ill. (color).
Doris Brian. "The Metropolitan's American Policy—A Long View, No Blind Flying." Art Digest 24 (July 1, 1950), pp. 7, 22, ill. p. 9.
Howard Devree. "American Progress: Metropolitan Points Up Painting Since 1900." New York Times (June 18, 1950), p. X6.
Howard Devree. "Hopper Since 1907—Whitney Show Covers Forty Years' Work—Modern French Masters—Baziotes." New York Times (February 12, 1950), p. 97.
Alexander Eliot. "Art: The Revolt of the Pelicans." Time 55 (June 5, 1950), p. 54, ill.
Howard Devree. "2 Centuries of Art in U.S. on Display." New York Times (December 18, 1953), p. L26.
Robert Beverly Hale. "American Painting 1754–1954." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 12 (March 1954), ill. p. 191.
Francis Henry Taylor. Fifty Centuries of Art. New York, 1954, ill. p. 184 (color).
Dorothy Grafly. "The Weathervane: Two Centuries of American Painting." American Artist 18 (April 1954), p. 66, ill. p. 42 (reproduced sideways).
Dorothy C. Miller inNew Art in America: Fifty Painters of the 20th Century. Ed. John I. H. Baur. Greenwich, Conn., 1957, ill. p. 246.
"At the Brussels World's Fair: Paintings by 17 Americans." Vogue 131 (April 15, 1958), p. 61, ill. (color, installation photo).
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, p. 187, ill. p. 186.
Shirley Glubok. The Art of America Since World War II. New York, 1976, p. 5, ill.
Eugene Victor Thaw. "The Abstract Expressionists." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 44 (Winter 1986–87), p. 9.
Beatriz Cordero inThe Irascibles: Painters Against the Museum, New York, 1950. Ed. Bradford R. Collins et al. Exh. cat., Fundación Juan March. Madrid, 2020, pp. 82, 95 n. 8.
Bradford R. Collins et al., ed. The Irascibles: Painters Against the Museum, New York, 1950. Exh. cat., Fundación Juan March. Madrid, 2020, p. 275, no. 1, ill. p. 157 (color).
William Baziotes (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1912–1963 New York)
1947
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