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Mountain Laurel

Alternate TitleStill Life
Artist Andrée Ruellan (American, 1905 - 2006)
Date1930/1937
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 28 x 24 1/8 inches (71.12 x 61.28 cm)
Framed: 34 1/8 x 30 1/16 inches (86.68 x 76.36 cm)
Credit LineGift in memory of Almaretta Morgan by Mystic Tie Lodge No. 79, Degree of Honor Protective Association
Object number37-42
SignedSigned lower left: Andree Ruellan
On View
Not on view
Collections
Published References
Edward A. Jewell, “Andrée Ruellan Shows Work,” New York Times,
10 February 1931, 14; Margaret Breuning, “Paintings, Prints,
Sculptures, Drawings Included on Week’s Art Calendar,” New York
Evening Post, 14 February 1931, D5; “After-Thoughts: Concerning the Australians and Some One-Man Shows,” New York Times,
15 February 1931, 116; Andrée Ruellan, exh. cat. (New York:
Weyhe Gallery, 1931), unpaginated; “Four Group Exhibitions,”
New York Times, 14 November 1937, 191; possibly Andrée Ruellan,
exh. cat. (New York: Walker Galleries, 1937), unpaginated (as Still
Life); “Gift to Nelson Gallery,” Kansas City Journal-Post, 29 April
1938, 12; “American Painting Given Nelson Gallery,” Kansas City
Journal-Post, 1 May 1938, 9B; “Masterpiece of the Month,” News
Flashes (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins
Museum of Fine Arts) 4 (1 May 1938), 2; “Kansas City: Gift of a
Painting to the W. R. Nelson Gallery,” Art News 36 (14 May 1938),
19–20; probably Third Exhibition: Paintings and Watercolors, exh.
cat. (New York: Collectors of American Art, 1938), unpaginated;
“A Ruellan in Memoriam,” Art Digest 12 (1 June 1938), 7; NAMA
1940, 25; NAMA 1941, 166; H. H. A., “‘Mountain Laurel’: A Painting by Andrée Ruellan,” Christian Science Monitor, 9 March 1942,
8; Winifred Shields, “Painter’s Technique a Key to Revealing His
Identity,” Kansas City Star, 12 May 1950, 18; Winifred Shields,
“A Special Collection of Works Is Growing at Nelson Gallery,”
Kansas City Star, 19 May 1950, 28; “Flower Paintings,” Gallery
News (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins
Museum of Fine Arts) 16 (May 1950), unpaginated; NAMA 1959,
257; NAMA 1973, 254; Andrée Ruellan, exh. cat. (Athens: Georgia
Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 1993), 16–17, 50, 74.
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