Signed, top of base: David Smith 45

Inscribed (signed and dated) on top of base in left rear corner: David Smith 45

The artist's studio

(Willard Gallery, New York, New York, USA)

1947-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Page, Addison Franklin. Modern Sculpture: A Picture Book of Modern Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1950, pp. 36, 37 (ill.). American Sculpture 1900-1965. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, MI, 1965, no. 58. McCoy, G., ed. David Smith. New York, 1973, fig. 30, p. 102, (ill.). Robert Hudson Tannahill Memorial Exhibition. Exh. cat., Grosse Pointe War Memorial. Grosse Pointe, MI, 1978, p. 22. David Smith, the Formative Years. Exh. cat., Edmonton Art Gallery. Alberta, 1981, p. 61 (ill.).

David Smith, Spectre Riding the Golden Ass, 1945, bronze . Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 47.60.