This painting is one of handful of Mark’s works where she utilized collaged paper as a flat design element. More typically she used paper to create texture by crumpling and working it into the painted surface. Amongst other collage-based works by important women artists, this piece was shown in Mark's first posthumous group gallery exhibition at Rosenberg & Co., New York, NY: Collage: Selections From Post-War Women Artists, July 25–September 14, 2023. From the Rosenberg & Co. press release:

"Through the work of these seminal artists, the exhibition examines the nature of collage as a medium and asserts the technique's role in the disruptive dialogues that occurred in post-war art...the exhibition celebrates the technique’s edifying potential and recognizes the artists that utilized the medium while contributing to the social, and artistic, developments of the post war period."

This Abstract Expressionist painting was also one of over thirty works exhibited in Mark's only solo show documented during her lifetime: Libbie Mark: Paintings and Collages, May 15–June 9, 1962 at Knapik Gallery, New York, NY. It is shown in surviving installation photos and the pricelist for the exhibition. Collage Painting #37 was exhibited in Mark's first posthumous solo show Art of the Abstract Mark: Libbie Mark’s Collage Paintings and Other Works, 1950s–1960s, January 18–February 25, 2022 at the National Arts Club, New York, NY. It is featured in the 56-page exhibition catalogue, which contains 27 vivid full-page color reproductions, two essays, a chronology, and additional illustrations. The catalogue is available online, and at Berry Campbell.

Berry Campbell Inv. no. MARK-00021
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