Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, Paintings by Bob Rauschenberg, May 14–June 2, 1951. 

Cole, Mary. “Fifty-Seventh Street in Review: Bob Rauschenberg.” Art Digest 25, no. 17 (June 1, 1951). p. 18

Robert Rauschenberg. Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1976. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 2 (ill. [flopped]), 3 (not exhibited)

Sandler, Irving. “Rauschenberg and Johns.” In The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties, by Irving Sandler, pp. 174–95. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. p. 174

Robert Rauschenberg: Werke 1950–1980. Berlin: Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, 1980. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 40, 49 (not exhibited)

Rauschenberg. Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 1985. Exhibition catalogue. n.p. (not exhibited)

Feinstein, Roni. “The Unknown Early Robert Rauschenberg: The Betty Parsons Exhibition of 1951.” Arts Magazine (New York) 59, no. 5 (January 1985). pp. 126 (fig. 1 [rotated]), 127, 131

Feinstein, Roni. “The Early Work of Robert Rauschenberg: The White Paintings, the Black Paintings, and the Elemental Sculptures.” Arts Magazine (New York) 61, no. 1 (September 1986). p. 28

Feinstein, Roni. “Random Order: The First Fifteen Years of Robert Rauschenberg’s Art, 1949–1964.” PhD diss., New York University, 1990. ProQuest (303859753). pp. 59–60, 63, 82, 89, n.p. (fig. 5 [flopped])

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 13, 28–29, 32, 44, 45 (pl. 10 [flopped]), 169 (not exhibited)

Smith, Mark L. “Image and Word in the Prints of Robert Rauschenberg, 1951–1981.” PhD diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1992. ProQuest (304034847). p. 275

Robert Rauschenberg. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993. p. 102 (ill. [flopped])

Wainwright, Lisa. “Reading Junk: Thematic Imagery in the Art of Robert Rauschenberg from 1952 to 1964.” PhD diss., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1993. ProQuest (304050074). p. 62

Hunter, Sam. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Rizzoli, 1999. p. 57

Joseph, Branden W. Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. p. 26

Richards, Elizabeth. “Rauschenberg’s Religion: Autobiography and Spiritual Reference in Rauschenberg’s Use of Textiles.” Southeastern College Art Conference Review 16, no. 1 (2011). p. 43

Davidson, Susan. “Mother of God.” Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2013. 

Kotz, Mary Lynn. Rauschenberg: Art and Life. 3rd ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2018. p. 70