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

Hess, Thomas B. “U.S. Painting: Some Recent Directions.” 25th Artnews Annual, 1956. p. 86 (ill.)

Robert Rauschenberg. Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1976. Exhibition catalogue. p. 31 (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. 128 (fig. 6), 128–29, 131

Feinstein, Roni. “Random Order: The First Fifteen Years of Robert Rauschenberg’s Art, 1949–1964.” PhD diss., New York University, 1990. ProQuest (303859753). pp. 65–67, 70, 82, 224, n.p. (fig. 10)

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 28, 30, 44, 52 (pl. 16) (not exhibited)

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). pp. ix, 65–66, 136

Joseph, Branden W. Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. pp. 42, 300

Craft, Catherine. “In Need of Repair: The Early Exhibition History of Robert Rauschenberg’s Combines.” Burlington Magazine 154, no. 1308 (March 2012). pp. 191, 194 (fig. 24), 196

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