Ernie Barnes

Motown Records, Los Angeles (acquired directly from the artist in 1994)

Jheryl Busby, California (acquired from the above)

Jheryl Busby Living Trust (by descent from the above in 2008)

Benefit Art Auction, Save Africa's Children, Los Angeles, 15 November 2009, lot 5 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Margaret D. Bauer, ed., "Fire and Brimstone," North Carolina Literary Review, 2019, p. 21, illustrated in color (online)

New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., Ernie Barnes: The Beauty of the Ghetto: An Exhibition of Neo-Mannerist Paintings, October - November 1990, p. 28, illustrated in color (exhibited and illustrated in an earlier state)