Provenance:
The Artist
Dr. James Alexander, acquired from the Artist, February 1953
Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago (as Balls of Yarn)
Acquired from the above by the present owners, January 4, 2003

Exhibited:
Elmhurst, Illinois, Elmhurst Art Museum, Gertrude Abercrombie: Portrait of the Artist as a Landscape, January 20 - March 4, 2018 (also travelled to Springfield, Illinois State Museum, March 23 - June 15, 2018)
New York, Karma, Gertrude Abercrombie, August 9 - September 23, 2018

Literature:
Robert Storr, Susan Weininger, Robert Cozzolino, Dinah Livingston, Studs Terkel, Gertrude Abercrombie, New York, 2018, pp. 343; 484, illus.