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New York, National Academy of Design (May–?), Tenth Annual Exhibition, no. 141. Art Institute of Chicago, The Friends of American Art, Loan Exhibition of American Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 8–28, 1914, no. 49, as The Breakdown. Brooklyn Museum, Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by William Sidney Mount: 1807–1868, Jan. 23–Mar. 8, 1942, no. 40, ill. as The Breakdown. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William Sidney Mount and His Circle, Jan. 31–?, 1945, no. 11 as The Breakdown. Long Island, New York, The Suffolk Museum at Stony Brook, The Mount Brothers (Aug. 23–Sept. 28, 1947, no. 67, p. 44, ill. p. 28 as The Breakdown. WI, Milwaukee Art Institute, Nineteenth Century American Masters, Feb. 20–Mar. 28, 1948, no. 34, as The Breakdown. Cincinnati Art Museum, Rediscoveries in American Painting, Oct. 3–Nov. 6, 1955, no. 63 and p. 14 as The Breakdown. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, American Narrative Painting, 1974, no. 24, ill. p. 62 as The Breakdown. William Sydney Mount: American Genre Painter Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth Feb. 5–May 4, 1999.

“The Fine Arts,” The Knickerbocker, June 1835, 550–556, no. 141, 554. The American Cyclopedia, A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Vol. XII (D. Appleton and Co., 1883), 7–8. Alfred Frankenstein, William Sidney Mount (Abrams, Inc., 1975). Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University Exhibition, October 3–November 28, 1976, 108, no. 109, (not included in exhibition history). Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1988), 81, ill. Marvin D. Schwartz, “The Art Institute’s New Wing,” Antiques and the Arts Weekly, November 4, 1988, 1, 60–62, ill. p. 60. Benjamin Nelson Pftingstag, Aspects of Form and Time in the Paintings of Willliam Sidney Mount (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1980), Ph.D. diss., 92, 119–122; mentioned under an earlier title: The Breakdown. Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).