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• Hal Burton, “Jackson Pollock: He Paints As He Pleases,” “Newsday,” December 1, 1950, p. 48.
• Parker Tyler, “Hopper/Pollock,” “Art News Annual” 26 (1957), p. 96 (ill.), as “Untitled painting, 1933.”
• Dorothy Seiberling, “Baffling U. S. Art: What It Is About,” “Life” (November 9, 1959), p. 71 (color ill.).; “Life International” (December 1959), n.pag. (ill.).
• Thomas B. Hess, “Pollock: The Art of a Myth,” “ARTnews” 62, 9 (January 1964), p. 39 (ill.), as “Untitled painting, ca. 1938.”
• Francis V. O’Connor, “The Genesis of Jackson Pollock: 1912–1943” (Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1965), p. 189, pl. 55 (ill.). For a general discussion of the influence of José Clemente Orozco on Pollock, see pp. 176–190.
• _____, “The Genesis of Jackson Pollock: 1912 to 1943,” “Artforum” 5, 9 (May 1967), p. 23, fig. 8 (ill.), as “Painting.”
• Irving Sandler, “The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism” (Praeger Publishers, 1970), p. 105, fig. 8-3 (ill.), as “Painting, c. 1938.”
• Judith Wolfe, “Jungian Aspects of Pollock’s Imagery,” “Artforum” 11, 3 (November 1972), p. 66, fig. 2 (ill.), as “Painting, c. 1938.”
• Francis V. O’Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, eds., “Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works” (Yale University Press, 1978), vol. 1, cat. 61 (ill.); vol. 4, fig. 21 (photo), as “[Composition with Donkey Head].”
• Daniel Wheeler, “Art Since Mid-Century: 1945 to the Present” (Vendome Press/Rizzoli International, 1991), pp. 41, 43, fig. 64 (color ill.), as “Composition with Donkey Head.”
• Stephen Polcari, “Review: Siqueiros and Pollock,” “Burlington Magazine” 138, 1117 (April 1996), p. 274, as “Composition with Donkey Head.”
• Richard Kalina, “Pollock, Orozco and Siqueiros at Washburn,” “Art in America” 86, 9 (September 1998), p. 129, as “Untitled (Composition with Donkey Head).”
• “Annual Report 1998–99” (Art Institute of Chicago, 1999), p. 19, as “Untitled (Composition with Donkey Head).”
• Robert Storr, “A Piece of the Action,” in Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel, eds., “Jackson Pollock: New Approaches” (Museum of Modern Art/Harry N. Abrams, 1999), p. 50, fig. 11 (ill.), as “Untitled [Composition with Donkey Head].”
• Anthony White, ed., “Jackson Pollock’s ‘Blue Poles,’” exh. cat. (National Gallery of Australia, 2002), p. 20 (color ill.), as “Untitled (Composition with Donkey Head), 1938–41.”
• Sarah Burns, Teresa A. Carbone, Annelise K. Madsen, and Sarah Kelly Oehler, America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s, First edition, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 172-173 (color ill.), 174, 176-177 (color ill.), 186.
• Barbara Haskell, ed., with additional essays by Mark A. Castro, Dafne Cruz Porchini, Renato González Mello, Marcela Guerrero, Andrew Hemingway, Anna Indych-López, Michael K. Schuessler, Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw, Shipu Wang, and James Wechsler, Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020), 162, 163, cat. 109 (color ill.)

• London, Marlborough Fine Art, “Jackson Pollock,” June 1961, cat. 26, as “Painting, c. 1938.”
• Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, “Jackson Pollock,” Sept. 5–Oct. 8, 1961, cat. 35, as “Painting, c. 1938.”
• Kunsthaus Zürich, “Jackson Pollock,” Oct. 24–Nov. 29, 1961, cat. 35, as “Painting, c. 1938.”
• Rome, Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, “Jackson Pollock,” Oct.–Nov. 1962; Milan, Toninelli Arte Moderna, Nov.–Dec. 1962, cat. 18, as “Painting, c. 1938.
• Stockholm, Moderna Museet, “Jackson Pollock,” Feb. 27–Apr. 15, 1963, cat. 35, as “Painting, 1938.”
• New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, “Jackson Pollock,” Jan. 14–Feb. 15, 1964, cat. 40, as “Painting, c. 1938.”
• East Hampton, NY, Guild Hall Museum, “Krasner/Pollock: A Working Relationship,” Aug. 8–Oct. 4, 1981; New York, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, Nov. 3–Dec. 12, 1981, cat. 20, as “Composition with Donkey Head.”
• Munich, ACA Gallery, “Jackson Pollock,” Sept. 1993, cat. 1, as “Composition with Donkey Head.”
• Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, “Siqueiros/Pollock, Pollock/Siqueiros,” Sept. 30–Dec. 3, 1995, no cat. no., as “Composition with Donkey Head.”
• Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, “Jackson Pollock: Defining the Heroic,” Mar. 2–June 30, 1996, cat. 5.
• New York, Joan T. Washburn Gallery, “Pollock, Orozco and Siqueiros,” Jan. 21–Feb. 28, 1998.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s, June 5–Sept. 18, 2016; Paris, Établissement public du musée d‘Orsay et du musée de l‘Orangerie, Oct. 11, 2016–Jan. 30, 2017; London, Royal Academy of Arts, Feb. 25–June 4, 2017.
• Shanghai Museum, Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019.
• New York, Whitney Museum of American art, Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945, Feb. 17-May 17, 2020, cat. 109; San Antonio, McNay Art Museum, June 25-Oct. 4, 2020 (extended at the Whitney until Jan. 31, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. McNay Art Museum portion of the tour was canceled.

The artist; by descent to Lee Krasner Pollock, New York, 1956; bequeathed to the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 1984 [according to email of Jul. 31, 2007 from Joan Washburn; photocopy in curatorial file]; sold through Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1998.