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Panama Dancers

Artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German, 1880–1938, active in Switzerland 1917–1938

Date1910–1911

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions19 7/8 x 19 7/8 in. (50.5 x 50.5 cm)
Frame: 27 3/4 x 27 1/2 in. (70.5 x 69.9 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineBequest of W. R. Valentiner

Object numberG.65.10.30

On View

On view

ProvenanceW. R. Valentiner, Detroit, MI, by ca. 1933 [1]; Valentiner Estate, Raleigh, NC, 1958 [2]; to NCMA, by bequest, 1965.

[1] See Detroit inventory, #13 "Ballet Dancers"
[2] L.58.12.12-VE "Panama Girls"
Published ReferencesW. R. Valentiner, E. L. Kirchner, German Expressionist (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1958), cat. no. 12, illus. (b-w) 74.

Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. no. 130, illus. (b-w) 210, fig. 130.

The W. R. Valentiner Memorial Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (Detroit, MI: The J. L. Hudson Gallery, 1964), cat. no. 20.

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

"Acquisitions: The Valentiner Bequest," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), mentioned 10, listed 79, illus. (b-w) 67, fig. 32.

North Carolina Architect, 20th Anniversary North Carolina Museum of Art 1947-1967 (Raleigh, NC: The North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 1967) 65. Artwork included without any written mention.

Haxthausen, Charles W. "Kirchner's Resting Girl with Headache and Its Place in His Development of the Color Woodcut." Manuscript, unpublished at this time (5/85) (see Artist's File in NCMA library).

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (color) 25.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (exhibition catalogue) (Beverly Hills, CA: Paul Kantor Gallery, 1957), cat. no. 4.

Donald E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: A Retrospective Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1968), cat. no. 24, illus.

Donald E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968), 68-71, illus. fig. 161.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: 1880-1938 (exhibition catalogue) (Berlin: Nationalgalerie Berlin, 1979), cat. no. 109, illus.

Huston Paschal, "Rethinking Familiar Images," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Autumn 1991), 3, illus.

L. E. [Lisa Eveleigh], "Private Collectors Share Their Art," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Autumn 1992), 12.

Carla Schulz-Hoffman, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gemälde 1908-1920 (München: Schirmer/Mosel GmbH, 1991), 22, illus. (color) fig. 7.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) xviii and 253.

Jill Lloyd, German Expressionism: Primitive and Modernity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991). Related, Chapter 6: subject matter relates to our painting and reproduction of preparatory drawing to the painting.

Jill Lloyd, "Panama Girls: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and the Urban Cabaret," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 17 (1997), 8-19, illus. (color) 8, detail (color) 19, detail of verso (b-w) 15.

Tanz in der Moderne. Von Matisse bis Schlemmer (exhibition catalogue) (Emden: Kunsthalle in Emden, 1996), cat. no. 53, illus. (color).

Huston Paschal, entry for Panama Girls, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 212, illus. (color).

Jan Schall, "Rhythmic Time in Modern German Art," in Tempus Fugit (exhibition catalogue), Jan Schall, ed. (Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2000), 74, illus (color).

Margot H. Knight, "As I See It," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview and Calendar of Events (May/June 2001), 29, illus. (b-w).

Art Taylor, "Museum Loans," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (March/April 2002), mentioned 7.

Jill Lloyd and Magdalena M. Moeller, eds. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The Dresden and Berlin Years (exhibition catalogue) (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2003), cat. no. 61, illus. (color) (catalogue only, not in exhibition).

Deborah Wye, Kirchner and the Berlin Street (exhibition catalogue) (New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 2008), illus. (color) 63.

Barbara Hamby, All-Night Lingo Tango (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), illus. (color) front cover.

John W. Coffey, entry for Panama Dancers, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 446, illus. (color) 447, also mentioned and illus. (color) 9.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (exhibition catalogue), Jill Lloyd and Janis Staggs, eds. (Munich: Prestel Verlag for Neue Galerie, New York, 2019), mentioned 21, cat. no. 9, illus. (color).

Sharon Jordan, Two Steps Ahead of the Century: Jazz and Art (Hamburg: Edel, 2017), illus. (color)Exhibition HistoryMannheim, Germany, Kunsthalle, "Ausstellung des Deutschen Künstlerbundes," 1913, no. 189 (or 107 or 108).

Beverly Hills, CA, Paul Kantor Gallery,"Ernst Ludwig Kirchner," April 8-May 3, 1957, no. 4.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "E. L. Kirchner, German Expressionist" January 10-February 9, 1958, cat. no. 12, illus. (b-w) 74.

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. 130, illus. (b-w).

Detroit, MI, J. L. Hudson Gallery, "The W. R. Valentiner Memorial Exhibition," November 18, 1963-January 2, 1964, cat. no. 20.

Seattle, WA, Seattle Art Museum, "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: A Retrospective Exhibition," November 23-January 5, 1969; Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, January 16-February 23, 1969; Boston, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, March 20-April 27, 1969, cat. no. 24, illus.

Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, "Celebration," October 25, 1974-January 5, 1975.

Berlin, Nationalgalerie, "Kirchner Retrospective," November 27, 1979-January 20, 1980; Munich, Haus der Kunst, February 8-April 13, 1980; Cologne, Museum Ludwig, April 25-June 8, 1980; Zurich, Kunsthaus, June 20-August 8, 1980, cat. no. 109, illus.

Emden, Germany, Kunsthalle in Emden, "Tanz in der Moderne: von Matisse bis Schlemmer," October 26, 1996-January 26, 1997; Munich, Haus der Kunst München, February 6-April 27, 1997, cat. no. 53, illus. (color) 61.

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner," March 2-June 1, 2003.

New York, NY, Museum of Modern Art, "Kirchner and the Berlin Street," August 3-November 10, 2008, illus. (color) 63.

New York, NY, Neue Galerie, “Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,” October 3, 2019–January 13, 2020, cat. no. 9, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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