Beulah's Baby
Artist
Primrose McPherson Paschal
American, 1915–1998
Date1948
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensionsoverall: 30 × 25 in. (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
frame: 36 3/8 × 31 1/4 × 1 7/8 in. (92.4 × 79.4 × 4.8 cm)
frame: 36 3/8 × 31 1/4 × 1 7/8 in. (92.4 × 79.4 × 4.8 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object numberG.48.1.2
On View
On viewLucinda H. MacKethan, Daughters of Time: Creating Woman's Voice in Southern Story (Georgia: Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures no. 32, University of Georgia Press, 1990), illus. (color) cover.
Acquisitions from North Carolina Annuals, 1946-1966 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), cat. no. 34, illus. (b-w).
"Art in North Carolina 1912-1954: Selections from the Permanent Collection," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 1986-87), discussed and illus. (b-w) 10.
The Witness (December 1994), illus. (color) 24.
William P. McPherson, Primrose: The Art and Life of Primrose McPherson Paschal (Raleigh: 1996), 23-24, illus. (color) 24.
Caroline M. Rocheleau, “Sacred Motherhood: Mother-and-Child Representations from the Permanent Collection,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 2014), mentioned 21.
Nancy Charron, Marilyn Fenton, and Margaret Harris, Reading with Writing in Mind: A Guide for Middle and High School Educators (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018), 13–14, illus. (b-w) 14.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, State Art Gallery, State Library Building, "North Carolina Artists' Twelfth Annual Exhibition," December 1, 1948-January 5, 1949, no. 68.
Winnipeg, Canada, Winnipeg Art Gallery, "Mother and Child," May 14-August 13, 1967, cat. no. 116.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Acquisitions from North Carolina Annuals, 1946-1966," March 12-26, 1967, cat. no. 34, illus. (b-w).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Art in North Carolina, 1912-1954, Paintings from the Permanent Collection," January 24-March 22, 1987; Lexington, NC, Davidson Art Guild, July 31-August 26, 1987.
Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, "Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Paintings from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 5-April 28, 1991.
Beaufort, NC, Carteret County Library, "Seven Paintings by 20th Century North Carolina Artists," October 1-31, 1991.
Lumberton, NC, Robeson County Public Library, "Art in North Carolina, 1912-1954," March 30-May 14, 1993.
Buies Creek, NC, Campbell University, Taylor Bott Rogers Fine Arts Center, "Art in North Carolina, 1912-1954," March 1-30, 1995.
Franklin, NC, Macon Savings Bank for the Arts Council of Macon County, "Outreach Exhibition," June 13-August 12, 1997.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Sacred Motherhood: Mother-and-Child Representations from the Permanent Collection,” May 4–December 7, 2014.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “To Be Young: Coming of Age in the Contemporary,” April 3, 2021–February 6, 2022.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924-2022," June 11-August 21, 2022.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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