Flowers, Still Life

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

Datecirca 1935

MediumWatercolor on paper

Dimensions20 1/8 x 14 in. (51.1 x 35.6 cm)
Frame: 28 x 21 1/4 in. (71.1 x 54 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineBequest of W. R. Valentiner

Object numberG.65.10.32

On View

Not on view

ProvenancePossibly given by artist to W. R. Valentiner, Detroit, MI, 1937 [1][2]; Valentiner Estate, Raleigh, NC, 1958 [3]; to NCMA, by bequest, 1965.

[1] See W. R. Valentiner, Kirchner exhibition catalogue, p. 35 (note in curatorial file).
[2] There are no records of the work in Los Angeles, either in inventories or exhibition, although there is a label from the Kantor Gallery.
[3] L.56.12.25-VE
Published ReferencesW. R. Valentiner, E. L. Kirchner, German Expressionist (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1958), cat. no. 58, illus. (b-w) 114.

The Art Quarterly 17, no. 2 (Summer 1963), 275.

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

Donald E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: A Retrospective Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1968), cat. no. 104, illus.

A Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1969), cat. no. 52, illus. (b-w).

North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 17 (1997), listed and illus. (b-w) 93.
Exhibition HistoryChicago, IL, The Art Institute of Chicago, "International Watercolor Exhibition," April 28-May 30, 1938, cat. no. 49 (as Still Life, Flowers, lent by Dr. W. R. Valentiner, Detroit).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "E. L. Kirchner, German Expressionist," January 10-February 9, 1958, cat. no. 58, illus. (b-w) 114.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Drawings and Watercolors," Summer 1969, cat. no. 52, illus. (b-w).

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. 104, illus..

Winston-Salem, NC, Wake Forest University, "German Expressionist Works," February 15-March 15, 1979.
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