Magnolias on Light Blue Velvet Cloth

New York City, M. Knoedler and Company, The American Vision, Paintings 1825–1875, Oct. 8–Nov. 2, 1968, cat. 43.

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade (Yale University Press, 1975), p. 276, no. 331. A Record of Sharing (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), p. 24 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1983–1984, (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), p. 9, fig. 8. Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Little, Brown, and Company, 1988), p. 92 (ill.). 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). Judith A. Barter, "True to the Senses and False in Its Essence: Still–Life and Trompe l'Oeil Painting in Victorian America," Museum Studies 31, 1 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2005) p. 38 (ill.). Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection, (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2017) p. 88.