William R. Valentiner

Artist Diego Rivera Mexican, 1886–1957

Date1932

MediumBlack and red pencil on paper

Dimensionsoverall: 27 x 21 in. (68.6 x 53.3 cm)
frame: 31 x 25 x 2 in. (78.7 x 63.5 x 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsDrawings

Credit LineBequest of W. R. Valentiner

Object numberG.65.10.55

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Published ReferencesMasterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. no. 179, illus. (b-w) 239, fig. 179.

The Art Quarterly 26, no. 2 (Summer 1963), 275.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), listed 80.

A Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1969 ), cat. no. 111, illus. (b-w).

Mark Rosenthal, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit (exhibition catalogue) (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 2015), cat. no. 32, illus. (color).

Jeffrey Abt, “Valuing Detroit’s Art Museum: A History of Fiscal Abandonment and Rescue” (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer International Publishing, 2017), illus. (b-w) 47, fig. 2.1.
Exhibition HistoryLabel on reverse: Gustav Knauer, Berlin.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958," April 6-May 17, 1959, cat. no. 179, illus. (b-w).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Drawings and Watercolors," Summer 1969, cat. no. 111, illus. (b-w).

Winston-Salem, Wake Forest University, Library Rare Book Room, "Special Exhibition," January 10-31, 1973.

Detroit, MI, Detroit Institute of Arts, "Diego Rivera: A Retrospective," February 10-April 27, 1986; Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 9-August 17, 1986.

Detroit, MI, Detroit Institute of Arts, “Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit,” March 15–July 12, 2015, cat. no. 32, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," April 10–May 22, 2023.

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