Resources
Exhibition HistoryNew York, M. de Zayas Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by John Covert, Apr.19-May 1, 1920. Cat. no. 9
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, American Genius in Review, No.1 , May 11-June 19, 1960. Text by Douglas MacAgy. Cat. no. 22, reproduced.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Decade of the Armory Show: New Directions in American Art 1910-1920 [Sixth Loan Exhibition of the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art], Feb. 27-Apr. 14, 1963. Cat. no. 15, p. 71.
Olympia, Washington, State Capitol Museum, Governor's Festival of Arts, March 3-31, 1968. No cat.
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, John Covert 1882-1960, Sept. 16-Nov. 14, 1976. Text by Michael Klein. Cat. no. 18, pp. 13, 50-51, reproduced p. 51.
Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Modern in America, July 8, 2004-Feb.27, 2005. No catalogue.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris, Feb.19-May 14, 2006*. Text by Leah Dickerman. Cat. no. 309, pp. 285-286, reproduced p. 341. [* circulated to Paris, Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou; and Museum of Modern Art, New York, but painting shown at National Gallery only].
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.
MacAgy, Douglas. "Five Rediscovered from the Lost Generation," Art News 59, no. 4 (Summer 1960): p. 40, fig. 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.
Tashjian, Dickran. Skyscraper Primitives: Dada and the American Avant-Garde, 1910-1925. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1975, p. 166, reproduced.
Klein, Michael. "John Covert and the Arensberg Circle: Symbolism, Cubism, and Protosurrealism," Arts Magazine 51, no. 9 (May 1977): p. 113.
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 and Michael Taylor. John Covert Rediscovered. University Park, Pennsylvania: Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, 2003, p. 33.
Craft, Catherine. "Dada, Paris, Washington and New York [exhibition review]," The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1240 (July 2006): p. 505, reproduced no. 87.