Sailor's Holiday

Inscription: Signed (upper right): Brackman

the artist, Noank, Conn. (1945–50; sold through the Grand Central Art Galleries, New York to MMA)

Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "American Paintings Since Sargent, Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 4–31, 1940, brochure no. 4 (as "Girl and Still Life").

Art Institute of Chicago. "Fifty-third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture," October 29–December 10, 1942, no. 69 (as for sale, for $3,500).

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. 4).

Nashville. Carl Van Vechten Gallery, Fisk University. "24th Annual Festival of Music and Art: Metropolitan Exhibit, 20th Century American Still-life Painting," April 23–May 6, 1953, no catalogue.

Brooklyn Museum. "Face of America: The History of Portraiture in the United States," November 14, 1957–January 26, 1958, no. 95 (fig. 40; reproduced with erroneous caption for Eugene Speicher, "The Mountaineer" [MMA 61.101.24]).

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. 69.

"Art: The 200." Time 56 (July 3, 1950), p. 48.