Venice without Water, June 12, 1990
Artist
Donald Sultan
American, born 1951
Date1990
MediumButyl rubber and acrylic paint on vinyl composite tiles, mounted on four Masonite panels
Dimensions96 x 96 x 5 in. (243.8 x 243.8 x 12.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Art Trust Fund
Object number97.3
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesDonald Sultan (exhibition catalogue) (London: Waddington Galleries, 1990), cat. no. 1, illus. (color).
Chuck Twardy, "High time for contemporary artworks," Raleigh: News and Observer (June 29, 1997), 1G, 8G.
Huston Paschal, entry for Venice without Water, June 12, 1990, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 252, illus. (color).
Jennifer Dasal, entry for Venice without Water, June 12, 1990, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 530, illus. (color) 531.
Alison Hearst, ed., Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings (exhibition catalogue) (Fort Worth: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in association with Delmonico Books·Prestel, 2016), cat. no. 56, illus. and detail (color).
Exhibition HistoryLondon, Waddington Galleries, "Donald Sultan," November 28-December 21, 1990, cat. no. 1, illus. (color).
New York, NY, Knoedler & Co., "Knoedler at 150: Contemporary Master Works," January 15-February 8, 1997.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Art for the People: Recent Museum Acquisitions," September 14, 1997-January 4, 1998. (Closing date extended to January 25, 1998)
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Objects of Desire: The Museum Collects, 1994-2004," July 18, 2004-February 27, 2005.
Miami, FL, Lowe Art Museum, “Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings,” September 29–December 23, 2016; Fort Worth, TX, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, February 19–April 23, 2017; Washington, DC, Smithsonian American Art Museum, May 26–September 4, 2017; Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, September 23–December 31, 2017; Lincoln, NE, Sheldon Museum of Art, January 24–May 13, 2017, cat. no. 56, illus. and detail (color).
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