Signed and dated, lower right: M. H. | '41

until 1944, Paul Rosenberg and Company (New York, New York, USA). 1944-1949, Robert H. Tannahill [1893 - 1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)

1949-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Annual American Show. Exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Philadelphia, 1943, no. 42. Eighteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1943, no. 2. American Realists. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario. Hamilton, 1961, no. 24. Marsden Hartley. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1970, no. 95. Robert H. Tannahill Memorial Exhibition. Exh. cat., War Memorial. Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, 1978, p. 21.

Marsden Hartley, Black Duck No. 1, 1941, oil on Masonite. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 49.512.