 It was illustrated by photographs of three stages in the painting's progress (the first two misdated).In 1951 he put in more work on the painting, but only in early 1952, anticipating its exhibition in the "Fifteen Americans" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (together with Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and other major modernists), did he finally begin to overpaint the preliminary reds and pinks in which he had worked out the picture's design.Working from the center outwards, he had only painted perhaps 30 per cent of the canvas in the new, off-gray color when, in 1954, while the painting was being moved to an exhibition, a gust of wind caught it, knocking over the men who were carrying it and tearing a hole in the lower right corner.