The Circus

Inscription: Signed, dated and inscribed (bottom): The Circus, New York 1929 Marguerite Zorach

the artist, New York (1929–at least 1935); Irwin Untermyer, New York (by 1956–64; his gift to MMA)

Atlantic City, N. J. Municipal Art Gallery. "Exhibition of American Contemporary Art," June 19–October 1, 1929.

Toledo Museum of Art. "International Exhibition of Modern Tapestries," December 7, 1930–January 25, 1931 (lent by the Downtown Gallery, New York).

Brooklyn Museum. "International Exhibition of Modern Tapestries," February 7–28, 1931.

New York. American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, Inc. "Exhibition of Important Paintings: Old and Modern Masters in the New York Art Market," March 15–April 4, 1931.

New York. The Forum, RCA Building, Rockefeller Center. "First Municipal Art Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Prints by Living American Artists Identified with the New York Art World," February 28–March 31, 1934.

New York. Brummer Gallery. "Embroideries by Marguerite Zorach," October 24–November 18, 1935, no. 17.

Edward Alden Jewell. "Contemporary American Art Joins Boardwalk Parade." New York Times (June 23, 1929), p. X10.

"Atlantic City's Art Gallery Opens With Modern Show." New York Herald Tribune (June 23, 1929), p. F8.

Marya Mannes. "The Embroideries of Marguerite Zorach." International Studio 95 (March 1930), pp. 30, 32, ill.

"A Group of Museum Exhibitions." Parnassus 3 (February 1931), p. 46.

Edward Alden Jewell. "In the Realm of Art: First Municipal Art Exhibition." New York Times (March 4, 1934), p. X12.

Georgiana Brown Harbeson. "The Four Moderns in America: Exponents of the Newer Embroidery." Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club 19, no. 1 (1935), p. 18.

E[manuel]. M. Benson. "Exhibition Reviews: Embroidery Paintings by Marguerite Zorach at the Brummer Gallery." American Magazine of Art 28 (December 1935), pp. 742, 744, ill., calls it "The Circus, New York".

"Exhibitions in New York. Marguerite Zorach: Brummer Galleries." Art News (November 2, 1935), p. 8.

"Mrs. Zorach's New Art Form Put on Display." New York Herald Tribune (October 23, 1935), ill. p. 21.

A. B. "Textiles as Art: From Peru to the Zorachs." Brooklyn Daily Eagle (November 3, 1935), p. 12C.

Marguerite Zorach. "Embroidery as Art." Art in America 44 (Fall 1956), ill. p. 49, dates it 1927 and locates it in the collection of Judge Irwin Untermeyer [sic], New York.

Yvonne Hackenbroch. English and Other Needlework, Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collection. Cambridge, Mass., 1960, pp. lxxix, 68, fig. 227, colorpl. 180.