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- ↑ "Kansas City Museum to Buy Benton Painting". The New York Times . 1986-12-14. Retrieved 2017-05-15.
- ↑ Zakia, Richard D. (2013). Perception and Imaging: Photography--A Way of Seeing. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 319–322. ISBN 9780240824536.
- Thomas Craven, A Treasury of Art Masterpieces from the Renaissance to the Present Day, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939, pp. 578–79
- Thomas Craven, A Descriptive Catalog of the Works of Thomas Hart Benton: Spotlighting the Important Periods during the Artist’s Thirty-two Years of Painting, exhibition catalog, New York: Associated American Artists, 1939, cat. #45
