Associated American Artists Galleries, New York

Arthur M. Loew, New York (probably acquired from the above 🅠😼in 1941)

Sotheby Parke𝄹 Bernet, Inc., New York, 27 October 1978, lot 185 (꧃consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

"For Beer and a Benton," Kansas City Star, 6 April 1941

Edward Alden Jewell, "Paintings on View of Thomas Benton," The New York Times, 9 April 1941, p. 30

Elizabeth Sacartoff, "A Benton at Every Bar—Straight," PM's Weekly, 13 April 1941, p. 47, illustrated (titled Instruction)

Creekmore Fath, The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton, Austin, 1969, no. 41, p. 102

Henry Adams, Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original, New York, 1989, p. 289, illustrated in a photograph of the artist’s studio (titled Instruction and dated 1941)

David C. Driskell, The Other Side of Color, San Francisco, 2001, no. 5, pp. 4-5, illustrated in color; pp. 209 and 211 (titled The Bible Lesson)

Henry Adams, Thomas Hart Benton: Discoveries & Interpretations, Columbia, Missouri, 2015, p. 143 (titled Instruction)

New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, Thomas Benton, 1941, no. 11 (titled Instruction)

Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue, 2014-16, fig. 11, p. 5, illustrated in color