John F. Clymer

Al Mengert, Tacoma, Washington (acquired directly from the artist in November 1981)

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Nash, Tulsa, Oklahoma (acquired by 1987)

Private Collection (acquired by 2010)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Jack Levine, "Cowboy Artists Sale Richest Ever; Works Net $1.7 Million," The Phoenix Gazette, 3 October 1981, pp. A-1 and A-4, illustrated

Hardy Price, "Patrons Pay Record $1.76 Million at Cowboy Artists' Sale," Arizona Republic, Phoenix, 31 October 1981, illustrated

"The Cowboy Artists' Show Comes to Phoenix," Arizona Highways, vol. 58, no. 9, Phoenix, September 1982, p. 45, illustrated in color

"1981 CAA Sale Show Sets Record $1,762,000," Cowboy Artists of America News, vol. 10, Phoenix, 1982, illustrated

Rosemary Holusha, "CAA Member Exhibit at Phoenix Art Museum," Art Voices, vol. 5, no. 1, West Palm Beach, Florida, January - February 1982, p. 59

The Gilcrease Magazine of American History and Art, vol. 9, no. 1, Tulsa, January 1987, p. 31

John Diffily, "John Clymer Paints the American West," The American West, vol. 24, no. 5, Tucson, October 1987, p. 14, illustrated

Phoenix Art Museum, The Cowboy Artists of America Exhibition, October - November 1981

Tulsa, Oklahoma, The Thomas Gilcrease Museum, Clymer, Lovell and Teague at Gilcrease, February - April 1987

Tulsa, Oklahoma, The Thomas Gilcrease Museum, 1988

Oklahoma City, National Cowboy Hall of Fame; Jackson, Wyoming, Wildlife of the American West Art Museum; Los Angeles, Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, The West of John Clymer, March - November 1991, pp. 60-61

Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming Art Museum, People of the West - A Collector's Vision: Selections from the Erivan and Helga Haub Collection, September - November 2010, no. 88

John F. Clymer’s Long Cold Winter was a hit when it debuted at the November 1981 Cowboy Artists of America Show, eventually earning a silver medal at the selling exhibition. Acquired by golfing professional Al Mengert in 1981, who described his purchase as “just the luckiest thing,” this work would go on to have a robust exhibition history at the renowned Gilcrease Museum of Art (Jack Levine, "Cowboy Artists Sale Richest Ever; Works Net $1.7 Million," The Phoenix Gazette, 3 October 1981, p. A-1).