Resources
Exhibition HistoryDallas, Texas, Dallas Museum for Contemporary Art, American Genius in Review, No. 1, May 11 - June 19, 1960. Text by Douglas MacAgy. Cat. no. 23, reproduced.
Albuquerque, New Mexico, University of New Mexico Art Museum and the Junior League of Albuquerque, Cubism: Its Impact in the U.S.A., 1910-1930, 1967 (San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, no dates given). Cat. no. 6, p. 20, reproduced p. 19, fig. 6.
Wilmington, Delaware, Delaware Art Museum, Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture in America 1910-25, Apr. 4 - May 18, 1975. Text by William Inness Homer et al. No cat. no, p. 172.
New York, American Federation of Arts, Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-Garde (Santa Fe, New Mexico, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Jan. 24 - Apr. 20, 2003; Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, May 9 - Aug. 1, 2003; Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art, Aug. 29 - Nov. 30, 2003). Text by Debra Bricker Balkan. No cat. no., listed p. 161, reproduced p. 38.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modern in America, July 8, 2004 - Feb. 27, 2005. No catalogue.
Published ReferencesAskew, Rual, "Bypassed Artists to Gain Fresh Study," The Dallas Morning News, April 26, 1960: Section 1, p. 12.
Askew, Rual. "Mementos Current and From Recall," The Dallas Morning News, May 15, 1960: Section 5, p. 4.
Davidson, Abraham A. "Two from the Second Decade: Manierre Dawson and John Covert," Art in America 63, no. 5 (September-October 1975): p. 54, reproduced p. 55.
Klein, Michael. John Covert, 1882-1960. Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976; p. 36, reproduced.
Lycette, Diana Yates. "John Covert, American Dadaist," M.A. thesis, University of Washington, 1973, pp. 20-21, 34, reproduced plate 11.
Strazdes, Dianna. "John Covert, 1882-1960," in American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1992; p. 148.
Mazow, Leo G., "John Covert, Tetraphilia, and the Game of Time" Winterthur Portfolio 41, no. 1 (2007): p. 26, reproduced fig. 5.