White Lilies on Red
Artist
Christian Rohlfs
German, 1849–1938
Date1919
MediumWatercolor and gouache on paper
Dimensions23 1/2 x 18 3/4 in. (59.7 x 47.6 cm)
Frame: 37 x 29 x 1 3/4 in. (94 x 73.7 x 4.4 cm)
Frame: 37 x 29 x 1 3/4 in. (94 x 73.7 x 4.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of W. R. Valentiner
Object numberG.65.10.56
On View
Not on view[1] Harvard Society exhibition, 1930; MoMA exhibition, 1931; Detroit inventory, ca. 1933, #50, "Still Life" (see label).
[2] L.58.12.71-VE, "Still Life" (one of two watercolors by Rohlfs).
Published ReferencesMasterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. no. 137, illus. (b-w) 215, fig. 137.
The Art Quarterly 26, no. 2 (Summer 1963), 277, illus. 259.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted or What's in a Dream (Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1979), illus. (b-w) 152.
"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), listed 79.
[Huston Paschal] "German Watercolors 1920-1932," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 1989), briefly discussed 12.
North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 17 (1997), listed and illus. (b-w) 95.
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 (see label).
New York, NY, Museum of Modern Art, "German Painting and Sculpture," March 13-April 26, 1931, no. 78, exh. cat. (as Lilies, 1919, Collection of Dr. W.R. Valentiner, Detroit).
Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum, 1947-1954 [notation on old curatorial record].
Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Fine Arts Association, "German Expressionist Prints and Paintings," February 9-March 7, 1953 (see label).
Beverly Hills, CA, Paul Kantor Gallery "W. R. Valentiner Collection, German Expressionists," 1956 [notation on old curatorial record].
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. 137, illus. (b-w).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "German Works on Paper," October 20, 1983-January 15, 1984.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "German Watercolors," 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-June 6, 1990.
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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