The Refectory of San Damiano, Assisi

ca. 1907

Julius C. Rolshoven American, 1858-1930

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Title The Refectory of San Damiano, Assisi

Artwork Date ca. 1907

Artist Julius C. Rolshoven

Life Dates 1858-1930

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 40 × 50 inches (101.6 × 127 cm) Framed: 51 5/8 × 61 3/4 × 3 3/4 inches (131.1 × 156.8 × 9.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Detroit Museum of Art Purchase, Popular Subscription Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 07.8

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Signed Signed, lower left: Rolshoven

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Julius C. Rolshoven

1907-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Rolshoven, Julius. "Journal of Julius Rolshoven, 1858-1930." University of New Mexico. Albuguerque, microfilm.

Unsigned review. "Rolshoven's Paintings." The Detroit News (February 20, 1888): n.p. [In Julius Rolshoven file, Burton Historical Library, Detroit Public Library]

Burroughs, Clyde H. “Modern Paintings: Julius C. Rolshoven’s Refectory of San Damiano [sic].” Bulletin of the DMA 1, 15 (October 1907): p. 5 (ill.).

Handbook of Modern Paintings Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1910, p. 44, no. 161 (ill.).

Exhibition of Oriental and American Art. Exh. cat., Alumni Memorial Hall, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, 1910, no. 112 (ill.).

Panama-Pacific Exhibition. Exh. cat., Department of Fine Arts. San Francisco, 1915, no. 3159.

Catalogue of the Detroit Institute of Arts of Paintings, Sculpture, and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 144, no. 234.

Cuthbert, Lee. Contemporary American Portrait Painters. New York, 1928, p. 18.

Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit. Detroit, 1930, p. 192, no. 366.

Art News 29, 11 (December 13, 1930): p. 14. [NOTE: Probably a tribute to Rolshoven, who died on December 8, 1930, the same day as his mother. See local Detroit papers and The New York Times on 12/8/30 for obits and analyses of Rolshoven's work.]

Leavitt, Virginia Couse. “Julius Rolshoven (1858-1930).” Artists of Michigan from the Nineteenth Century. Muskegon, MI, 1987, pp. 147-153.

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Julius C. Rolshoven, The Refectory of San Damiano, Assisi, ca. 1907, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Museum of Art Purchase, Popular Subscription Fund, 07.8.