[Downtown Gallery, New York, until 1952; sold to MMA]
New York. Downtown Gallery. "William Zorach," January 27–February 15, 1931, no. 1.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture," October 29–December 13, 1931, no. 280 (awarded the Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Prize).
Art Institute of Chicago. "A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture 1934," June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 852 (dated 1928–30; lent by the Downtown Gallery, New York).
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Summer Exhibition: The Museum Collection and a Private Collection on Loan," June 4–September 24, 1935, no catalogue [added to the exhibition on June 18, 1935].
Cleveland Museum of Art. "Sculpture of Our Time," November 5–December 5, 1937, no catalogue.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Art in Our Time: An Exhibition to Celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art and the Opening of Its New Building," May 10–September 30, 1939, no. 288 (lent by the artist).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "William Zorach," October 14–November 29, 1959, no. 12.
Miami. Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery. "William Zorach," January 1–31, 1960, no. 12.
Columbus, Oh. Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. "William Zorach," March 3–31, 1960, no. 12.
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. "William Zorach," April 20–May 30, 1960, no. 12.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Tribute to a Curator: Robert Beverly Hale," November 16, 1978–March 4, 1979, extended to March 18, 1979, no catalogue.
"The Forty-fourth Annual at Chicago." American Magazine of Art 23, no. 6 (December 1931), p. 487, ill. p. 488.
"Recent and Current Exhibitions in New York." Parnassus 3 (February 1931), pp. 15, 49.
Vanity Fair (March 1931), p. 54, ill.
"Continuity Between Tradition and Today." Art Digest 5 (February 1, 1931), p. 12, ill. (detail).
Walter Knowlton. "Around the Galleries." Creative Art 6 (March 1931), pp. 84–85.
"Chicago's Annual Draws Eyes of Fighters for American Art." Art Digest 6 (November 1, 1931), p. 3, ill.
"The Forty-Fourth Annual American Exhibition." Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 25 (December 1931), pp. 120–21, ill.
Arts 17 (1931), ill. pp. 416–17 (front and back views).
"Sculpture and Subject." Creative Art 8 (1931), pp. 278–79, ill.
"New York Artists Win Chicago Show Prizes." New York Times (October 30, 1931), p. 2.
Edward Alden Jewell. "William Zorach: Sculpture for Architecture." New York Times (February 1, 1931), p. 119, ill.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Art: Two Sculpture Shows Open." New York Times (January 28, 1931), p. 15.
Elisabeth Luther Cary. "In a Spontaneous Mood: Walt Kuhn at Marie Harriman and a Group of Artists at the Downtown Gallery." New York Times (February 15, 1931), p. 117.
Elisabeth Luther Cary. "At Variance with the Primitives." New York Times (March 8, 1931), p. 119.
C. J. Bulliet. "The Annual Exhibition at Chicago Art Institute." New York Times (November 8, 1931), p. XX12.
"The Art Market." Parnassus 3 (February 1931), ill. p. 25.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Art in Review: Plaster Cast of Zorach's 'Spirit of the Dance,' Banned in Radio City, Is Shown Downtown." New York Times (December 28, 1932), p. 13.
Edward Alden Jewell. "1862—American Art—1932." New York Times (November 6, 1932), p. X10.
Daniel Catton Rich. "The Twelfth Annual Water Color Exhibition." Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 26 (April–May 1932), p. 43 n. 1.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Mainly About Sculpture." New York Times (May 14, 1933), p. X8.
Edward Alden Jewell. "In the Realm of Art: First Municipal Art Exhibition." New York Times (March 4, 1934), p. X12, ill.
Louise Cross. "William Zorach." London Studio 8 (1934), p. 82, ill.
"Exhibits to Be Shown at First Municipal Art Show Here." New York Times (February 21, 1934), ill. p. 21 (with the artist).
Mariquita Villard. "William Zorach and His Sculpture." Parnassus 6 (October 1934), pp. 4–5, dates it 1931.
"Zorach Sculpture on View." New York Times (July 1, 1935), p. 21.
Howard Devree. "The Week in New York: Added Summer Attractions." New York Times (August 11, 1935), p. X7.
"To Enlarge Art Display." New York Times (August 3, 1935), p. 11.
William Zorach. "Tools and Materials. IIC: Carved Sculpture." American Magazine of Art 28 (March 1935), ill. p. 157 (completed and in progress).
"Sculpture of Our Time." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 24 (November 1937), p. 137, ill. p. 139, notes that this work was lent by the artist to Exh. Cleveland 1937.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Champions in the Lists: The Case For and Against Abstract Art and Its Place in the Modern Movement." New York Times (July 11, 1937), ill. p. 142.
Paul S. Wingert. The Sculpture of William Zorach. New York, 1938, pp. 27–28, 41, 46–51, pls. 22 (clay sketch), 23 (front view), 24 (back view).
Martha Candler Cheney. Modern Art in America. New York, 1939, pl. 85.
Anita Brenner. "Modern Sculpture: Is it Art or What?" New York Times (February 5, 1939), p. SM6, ill.
"'Art in Our Time' Set in Cool Garden." New York Times (July 7, 1939), p. 19.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Museum to Show 'Art in Our Time'." New York Times (May 10, 1939), p. 27.
William Zorach. "The Background of an Artist, Part II." Magazine of Art 34 (1941), p. 239, ill. pp. 234, 235 (detail).
William Zorach. "American Sculpture." Studio 127 (1944), p. 185, ill.
American Artists Group, ed. William Zorach. New York, 1945, ill.
William Zorach. Zorach Explains Sculpture: What It Means and How It Is Made. New York, 1947, pp. 226, 228, ill. pp. 234 (various stages and detail of finished work), 246.
William Zorach: A Retrospective Exhibition of Sculpture Commemorating His Twenty-first Year as Instructor at the Art Students League of New York. Exh. cat., Art Students League of New York. New York, 1950, p. 4, no. 5, ill. (plaster cast).
"Purchased by Museum of Art." New York Times (December 2, 1952), p. 18, ill.
"Possibly Eternal." Time 60 (December 15, 1952), p. 84.
John I. H. Baur. William Zorach. New York, 1959, pp. 23–24, 26–27, 110, figs. 46 (color and bw), 47 (stages in carving).
Albert TenEyck Gardner. American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1965, pp. 157–58, ill.
"William Zorach Is Dead at 79; Eloquent Sculptor and Painter." New York Times (November 17, 1966), p. 47.
Mahonri Sharp Young. "Ferdinand Howald and His Artists." American Art Journal 1 (Autumn 1969), p. 121.
Marshall B. Davidson. The American Heritage History of the Artists' America. New York, 1973, pp. 326–27, ill.
Roberta K. Tarbell. "William Zorach's Reclining Figures." Archives of American Art Journal 15, no. 4 (1975), p. 4, dates it 1927–31.
William Zorach (American (born Lithuania), Jurbarkas (Eurburg) 1889–1966 Bath, Maine)
1914 (recto); ca. 1920 (verso)
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