The Kiss

April 1988, sold by Schmidt Bingham Gallery (New York, NY) to William H. McClain (Lake Mills, WI); 2005, deposited on long-term loan to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; 15 October 2008, gifted to the Chazen Museum of Art

• Chazen Museum of Art. "Things of Nature and the Nature of Things: John Wilde in the McClain Collection." Chazen Museum of Art, 2006. p. 30, no. 4
• Panczenko, Russell and Theodore F. Wolff. "Wildeworld: The Art of John Wilde." New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1999. p. 112

• Magic of John Wilde, The: Chazen Museum of Art, 5/29/2010–7/25/2010
• Things of Nature and the Nature of Things: John Wilde in the McClain Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 6/10/2006–8/20/2006
• Wildeworld: The Art of John Wilde: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 11/13/1999–1/9/2000

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