1887
ECA control number: 28007 (old #23595)
Record level: Listing
Record type: Timeline year
Artist time line: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]
Year: 1887
Subject age: 39 years old
Locations:
United States—Massachusetts—Boston
United States—New York—New York
United States—California—San Francisco
World news:
Local news:
Points:
– Staying in New York for about one year, Carlsen worked in a studio later used by his friend J Alden Weir (1852-1919).
– Emil attracts the attention of Mary Curtis Richardson (1848-1931), a wealthy artist and patron from San Francisco, who offered him the directorship of the San Francisco Art Association School.
– By April, 1887, Carlsen traveled to California to begin his new job.
– Carlsen joins the Bohemian Club in California.
Paintings: (11)
– untitled [on the table], ca.1887.
– Moonlight, 1887.
– Seascape, study with boats, ca.1887.
– The mill stream, 1887.
– Estelle, ca.1887.
– Jinks cartoon—vanity fair, 1887.
– Woman sewing, ca.1887.
– Still life with onions, ca.1887.
– Girl with a violin, 1887.
– Woman with roses, 1887.
– Still life with onions & copper kettle, 1887.
Exhibitions: (7)
1887 Bohemian Club [1872- ], San Francisco, CA, “George Alfred Townsend Dinner & Event”, October 1-8.
1887 Inter-State Industrial Exposition, Chicago, IL, “Fifteenth Annual Exhibition“, September 7 – October 22.
1887 Society of American Artists (held at Yandell Art Gallery, New York, NY), “Ninth Annual Exhibition“, April 19 – May 3. Shown “Cape Ann Sands, 1885”, [2 still life]
1887 National Academy of Design, New York, NY, “62nd annual exhibition (spring exhibition)”, April 4 – May 14.
1887 American Water-Color Society (held at the National Academy of Design, New York, NY), “20th annual exhibition of the American Water-Color Society”, March, 1887. Shown Moncour, 1884 (#293)
1887 4 West 22nd Street, New York, NY, “Calling out the hounds (with Alexander Pope)”, Mid-January.
1887 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, “Industrial Exposition“, 1887.
Articles: (8)
– The Boston Weekly Globe, Boston, MA, “A bad bargain”, October 26, 1887, page 6.
– The Nation, “American Society of Artists“, May 19, 1887, pg. 435, volume 44, #24, not illustrated.
– “The Critic, Volume 7-Volume 10” edited by Jeannette Leonard Gilder, Joseph Benson Gilde, 1887, number 174, page 219, not illustrated.
– Boston Post, Boston, MA, “Pictures in Noyess Gallery”, April 30, 1887, page 5.
– Boston Post, Boston, MA, “The fine arts”, April 26, 1887, page 4.
– The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, NY, “Gallery and studio“, April 24, 1887, page 2.
– San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, “The art exhibit”, April 22, 1887, page 6.
– The Nation, “Fine arts : the water-color exhibition”, February 10, 1887, volume 44, pages 128-129, not illustrated.
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