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)
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[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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