Acquired directly from the artist

Long Beach, California State University, University Art Museum; Athens, Ohio University, Trisolini Gallery; Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Tom Wesselmann: The Early Years, Collages 1959-1962, November 1974 - March 1975 
Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum; Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the '50s & '60s, April - December 1987, fig. 16, p. 28, illustrated in color

Barbara J. Mitnick, ed., George Washington: American Symbol, New York, 1999, p. 149
Anthony Julius, Transgressions: The Offences of Art, Chicago, 2002, p. 74

This work is in good condition overall. There is evidence of wear and handling toward the edges, where the wood has worn slightly. There is a chip to the wood at the bottom center, which appears to be preexisting, where there is also some brown discoloration. There is a spot of paint loss at the upper right edge and scattered accretions on the figure's torso and on the George Washington relief. The colors of the American flag at the upper left appear to have faded slightly. There is a small, half inch spot of vertical craquelure to the left of the artist's signature. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed in a Plexiglas box.
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