[8] The painting was part of Lichtenstein's second solo exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery from September 28 to October 24, 1963 that included Drowning Girl, Torpedo...Los!, Baseball Manager, Conversation, and Whaam!

[16] After 1972, Lichtenstein's comics-based women "look hard, crisp, brittle, and uniformly modish in appearance, as if they all came out of the same pot of makeup."

[19] A November 1963 Art Magazine review stated that this was one of the "broad and powerful paintings" of the 1963 exhibition at Castelli's Gallery.

These works served as prelude to 1964 paintings of innocent "girls next door" in a variety of tenuous emotional states.

[20] "In the Car evokes a mood of resignation, with silence apparently prevailing as the woman stares stonily out the window.