Raven in Moonlight

Artist Morris Graves American, 1910–2001

Date1943

MediumTempera on paper on board

Dimensions22 1/2 x 26 3/4 in. (57.1 x 67.9 cm)
Frame: 28 7/8 x 31 5/8 x 1 5/8 in. (73.3 x 80.3 x 4.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineBequest of W. R. Valentiner

Object numberG.65.10.23

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceThe artist, Fidalgo Island, WA: given to William R. Valentiner, Detroit, MI, 1944; bequeathed to NCMA, 1958; received, 1965.
Published ReferencesW. R. Valentiner. "Remembering Artists," unpublished manuscript (1950-51), 28.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," The Art Quarterly 26 (Summer 1963), listed 275.

Morris Graves: A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue) (Eugene, OR: University of Oregon Museum of Art, 1966), cat. no. 40.

American Paintings since 1900 from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), cat. no. 23, illus. (b-w).

Charles W. Stanford, Jr. Selections from British and American Painting and Sculpture (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), no. 39, illus. (b-w).

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), listed 79, illus. (b-w) fig. 36.

American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue) (Asheville, NC: Asheville Art Museum, 1976), listed (with artists bio.) 14, illus. 15.

North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 17 (1997), listed and illus. (b-w) 92.
Exhibition HistoryDetroit, MI, Detroit Institute of Arts, "Advance Trends in Contemporary American Art," April 4-30, 1944, cat. no. 41.

Eugene, OR, University of Oregon Museum of Art, "Morris Graves: A Retrospective," February 8-March 13, 1966, no. 40.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "American Paintings since 1900 from the Permanent Collection," April 1-27, 1967, no. 23, illus. (b-w).

Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, "American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 16-June 27, 1976, listed (with artist's bio.) 14, illus. (b-w) 15.

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