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Still Life, Tulips
Still Life, Tulips

Still Life, Tulips

Artist Emil Nolde German, 1867–1956
Datecirca 1930
MediumWatercolor on paper
Dimensions18 13/16 x 13 15/16 in. (47.8 x 35.4 cm)
Frame: 26 x 21 x 1 3/4 in. (66 x 53.3 x 4.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of W. R. Valentiner
Object numberG.65.10.51
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceW. R. Valentiner, Detroit, MI, by 1930 [1]; Valentiner Estate, NC, 1958 [2]; to NCMA, by bequest, 1965.

[1] Lent by Valentiner to Harvard Society exhibition.
[2] L.58.12.165-VE
Published ReferencesMasterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. no. 135, illus. (b-w) 214, fig. 135.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," The Art Quarterly 26, no. 2 (Summer 1963), listed 275, illus. (b-w) 259.

Gustavus H. Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted or What's in a Dream (New York: Rand McNally & Co., n.d.), 33, illus.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), listed 79.

A Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1969), cat. no. 79, illus. (b-w).

Lois Fichner-Rathus, Understanding Art, 4th ed. (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995: illus. (color) 104. 5th ed. (1998), illus. (color) 99. 6th ed. (Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers, 2001), illus. (color) 155. 7th ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2004), briefly discussed and illus. (color) 139. 10th ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2013), briefly discussed 131–32, illus. (color) 131, fig. 6-15.


North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 17 (1997), listed and illus. (b-w) 94.

Huston Paschal, entry for Still Life, Tulips, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 219, illus. (color).

M. Therese Southgate, M.D., "The Cover," JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 289, no. 4 (March 19, 2003), discussed 392, illus. (color) 383, 392, and cover.
Exhibition HistoryCambridge, MA, Harvard Society of Contemporary Art, "Modern German Art," April 18-May 10, 1930; Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, May 19-June 2, 1930 (lent by W. R. Valentiner).

Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Fine Arts Association, "German Expressionist Prints and Paintings," February 9-March 7, 1953 (see label).

Los Angeles, CA, University of Southern California, "Some German Expressionists," November 4-26, 1954.

Beverly Hills, CA, Paul Kantor Gallery, "W. R. Valentiner Collection - German Expressionists," 1956.

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. 135, illus. (b-w).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Drawings and Watercolors," Summer 1969, cat. no. 79, illus. (b-w).

Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "Masterpieces from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 11-April 13, 1975, cat. no. 135, illus.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Changing Selections Gallery, "German Watercolors, 1920-1932," May 30-August 20, 1989.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Education Gallery, "Objects of Delight: Still Lifes from the Permanent Collection," October 5, 1990-June 16, 1991.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The Legacy of W. R. Valentiner," January 27-March 29, 1998.
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