Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in graphite): BRAINARD - 72
the artist, New York (from 1972; his gift to Elmslie); Kenward Elmslie, New York (by 1994–2021; his gift to MMA)
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum. "Joe Brainard: A Retrospective," February 7–May 27, 2001, unnumbered cat. (pl. 13; lent by Kenward Elmslie).
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. "Joe Brainard: A Retrospective," June 22–September 9, 2001, unnumbered cat.
Queens, N.Y. P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center. "Joe Brainard: A Retrospective," September 30–December 30, 2001, unnumbered cat.
Las Vegas. Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada. "Joe Brainard: A Retrospective," January 22–February 28, 2002, unnumbered cat.
Buffalo, N.Y. UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts. "Joe Brainard, People of the World: Relax!!," January 25–March 3, 2007, unnum. checklist (lent by Kenward Elmslie).
New York. Tibor de Nagy Gallery. "The Nancys," April 10–May 17, 2008, no catalogue (lent by a private collection).
Carter Ratcliff. "Attending to the Ordinary." Art in America 85 (July 1997), p. 73, ill. p. 75 (color).
Carter Ratcliff in Constance M. Lewallen. Joe Brainard: A Retrospective. Exh. cat., University of California, Berkeley Art Museum. Berkeley, 2001, p. 55.
Brad Gooch. "Nancy Ideas: Joe Brainard in Retrospect." Artforum 39 (February 2001), ill. p. 125 (color).
Constance M. Lewallen. Joe Brainard: A Retrospective. Exh. cat., University of California, Berkeley Art Museum. Berkeley, 2001, pp. 16, 149, colorpl. 13.
Alicia Miller. "Berkeley." Art Papers 25 (July/August 2001), p. 55.
"Joe Brainard, PS1." Frieze no. 65 (March 2002), p. 88.
Gavin Butt. "Joe Brainard’s Queer Seriousness, or, How to Make Fun out of the Avant-Garde." Neo-Avant-Garde. Amsterdam, 2006, pp. 291–92, fig. 2.
John Yau. "Joe Brainard 'The Nancys'." brooklynrail.org. May 2008, ill. (color), calls it "If Nancy Were a Boy" in the caption.
Ann Lauterbach inJoe Brainard: The Nancy Book. Los Angeles, 2008, pp. 21, 134, ill. p. 33 (color).
Elaine Sexton. "Joe Brainard: Tibor de Nagy." Art in America 97 (February 2009), p. 132.
Ellen Levy. Criminal Ingenuity: Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the Struggle Between the Arts. Oxford, 2011, pp. 202–3, fig. 5.3.
Mark Ford. "Shameless and All-Forgiving Joe." New York Review of Books 60 (January 10, 2013), p. 51.
Brian Glavey. The Wallflower Avant-Garde: Modernism, Sexuality, and Queer Ekphrasis. New York, 2016, pp. 20, 139, fig. 5.2.
Ramzi Fawaz. "Stripped to the Bone: Sequencing Queerness in the Comic Strip Work of Joe Brainard and David Wojnarowicz." ASAP/Journal 2 (May 2017), pp. 341–48, fig. 2 (color).
Kimberly Lamm. "A Queer Poetics of the Normal: Joe Brainard, Clothing, and Girlish Femininity." Joe Brainard's Art. Ed. Yasmine Shamma. Edinburgh, 2019, pp. 215–16, fig. 14.1 (color).
Edmund Berrigan. "Vulnerability in Joe Brainard's Work." Joe Brainard's Art. Ed. Yasmine Shamma. Edinburgh, 2019, p. 36.
Ron Padgett. A Joe Brainard Show in a Book. Madrid, 2021.
John Yau. Joe Brainard: The Art of the Personal. New York, 2022, p. 76.
Ramzi Fawaz. Queer Forms. New York, 2022, pp. 262–67, 272, fig.5.4a.
J. Hoberman. "Vulgar Minimalism: Bill Griffith's 'Three Rocks' and the Cult of 'Nancy'." Artforum 62 (April 2024), p. 124, ill. (color).
Joe Brainard (American, Salem, Arkansas 1942–1994 New York)
ca. 1975
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