Farm in Holstein

Artist Emil Nolde German, 1867–1956

Datecirca 1925

MediumWatercolor on paper

Dimensionsoverall: 12 1/4 × 19in. (31.1 × 48.3cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineBequest of W. R. Valentiner

Object numberG.65.10.50

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceW. R. Valentiner, Detroit, MI, by March 13, 1931 [1][2]; Valentiner Estate, 1958 [3]; to NCMA, by bequest, 1965.

[1] Lent to MoMA exhibition, no. 71, "Farm" (see label).
[2] Detroit inventory, cat. 1933, #39, "Farm in Holstein" (see label).
[3] L.58.12.69-VE
Published ReferencesThe Art Quarterly 17, no. 2 (Summer 1963), 275.

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

A Catalogue of Paintings and Watercolors (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1969), cat. no. 78.

"German Watercolors, 1920-1932," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 1989), briefly discussed 11-12, illus. (b-w) 12.

North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 17 (1997), listed and illus. (b-w) 94.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Museum of Modern Art, "German Painting and Sculpture," March 13-April 26, 1931, cat. no. 71 (as Farm, collection of W. R. Valentiner, Detroit).

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

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Drawings and Watercolors," Summer 1969, cat. no. 78.

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, "The Legacy of W. R. Valentiner," January 27-March 29, 1998.

Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, "Romantic Dreams and Rude Awakenings: Northern European Prints and Drawings, 1840-1940," April 8-July 10, 2011. Object Rights Statement

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