Mrs. Benoist Troost
Framed: 50 1/2 × 39 7/8 × 2 inches (128.27 × 101.28 × 5.08 cm)
Fern Helen Rusk, George Caleb Bingham: The Missouri Artist (Jefferson City, Mo.: Hugh Stephens Co., 1917), 70-71, 123 (as Portrait of Mrs. Mary Troost);
Troost Portrait a Gift," Kansas City Times, 4 May 1935, 1, 3 (as Mrs. Troost);
"In Gallery and Studio," Kansas City Star, 12 July 1935, 8;
"Art," Kansas City Times, 17 July 1935, 7;
Albert Christ-Janer, George Caleb Bingham of Missouri: The Story of an Artist (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940), 96-97;
NAMA 1940, 21 (as Portrait of Mrs. Troost);
NAMA 1941, 166 (as Portrait of Mrs. Troost);
Winifred Shields, "Art and Artists," Kansas City Star, 23 September 1949, 18;
Dorothy Heiderstadt, "Self-Made Painter of Early Missouri Contributed Much to Historical Record," Kansas City Star, 18 February 1950, 12;
Winifred Shields, "Centennial Exhibition of Missouri Valley Art Opens at Nelson Gallery," Kansas City Star, 25 June 1950, C1;
Fay E. Glenn, "Dr. and Mrs. Benoist Troost, Prominent Citizens of Kansas City in the Nineteenth Century: The Troost Portraits by George Caleb Bingham," typescript, 1953, NAMA curatorial files;
Lew Larkin, Bingham: Fighting Artist (Kansas City, Mo.: Burton Publishing Company, 1954), 121, 123;
NAMA 1959, 255 (as Mrs. Mary Troost);
John Francis McDermott, George Caleb Bingham: River Portraitist (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959), 128, 253, 428;
E. Maurice Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), 107-8;
E. Maurice Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), 1, 172n5, 205-6, 258, 338;
NAMA 1973, 250 (as Mrs. Mary Troost);
National Society of the Colonial Dames in America, Missouri, Portraits in Missouri: Painted before 1860 (n.p.: National Society of the Colonial Dames in America, 1974), unpaginated;
Ross E. Taggart, "American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri," Antiques 122 (November 1982), 1032-33, 1035 (as Mary Ann Troost);
E. Maurice Bloch, The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986), 103, 212-13;
NAMA 1991, 76-77;
NAMA 1993b, 53;
Margaret C. Conrads, "Bingham to Benton: The Midwest as Muse," American Art Review 17 (January-February 2005), 152-53;