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Young Shepherd with Flower
Young Shepherd with Flower

Young Shepherd with Flower

Artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German, 1880–1938, active in Switzerland 1917–1938
Date1918
MediumOil with small additions of wax on canvas
Dimensions27 1/2 x 24 in. (69.8 x 61 cm)
Frame: 33 3/4 x 30 x 3 1/4 in. (85.7 x 76.2 x 8.3 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineAnonymous gift
Object numberG.63.23.1
On View
On view
ProvenanceProbably created Switzerland, 1918; collection of the artist; possibly purchased from the artist by W. R. Valentiner, Detroit, MI, 1937 [1]; Valentiner Estate, Raleigh, NC, 1958 [2]; to NCMA, by bequest, 1965.

[1] Valentiner mentions buying an oil painting after Kirchner’s Detroit exhibition. See note in curatorial file.
[2] L.58.12.8-VE
Published ReferencesW. R. Valentiner, E. L. Kirchner, German Expressionist (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1958), cat. no. 30, illus. (b-w) 90.

Collectors' Opportunity (exhibition catalogue) (Winston-Salem: The Gallery of the Public Library of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, 1963), discussed 112, illus. (b-w) 113.

La Chronique des Arts, no. 1141 (February 1964), 75, illus. 74.

Sele Arte 11, no. 64 (July-August 1963), 29, illus.

The Art Quarterly 26, no. 3 (Autumn 1963), 367.

Emporium (December 1963), illus.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), listed 59, illus. (b-w) 51.

Christian Science Monitor (July 18, 1964), illus. cover.

"Acquisitions: The Valentiner Bequest," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), mentioned 10.

Donald E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968), 112, illus. 341.

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 126, illus. (b-w) 127.

North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 17 (1997), listed and illus. (b-w) 93.
Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, CA, University of Southern California, "Some German Expressionists," November 4-26, 1954.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "E. L. Kirchner, German Expressionist," January 10-February 9, 1958, cat. no. 30, illus. (b-w) 90.

Winston-Salem, NC, Gallery of the Public Library of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, "Collectors' Opportunity," April 22-May 3, 1963, discussed 112, illus. (b-w) 113.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 126, illus. (b-w) 127.

Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "Masterpieces from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 11-April 13, 1975.

Winston-Salem, Wake Forest University, "German Expressionist Works," February 15-March 15, 1979.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "John Brooks and German Expressionism," November 4, 2024-present.

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