Emil Carlsen : Horse grazing, ca.1930.
ECA record control number: 3293
Archives of American Art #: 83940010
Record level: Item
Record type: Movable work
Work title: Horse grazing
Alternate work titles:
1975: Horse grazing [from exhibition catalog and verso label].
Work date: ca.1930 (based on palette & technique)
Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]
Work medium: Oil on board
Work dimensions: 14-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches
Inscribed/signed front: Unsigned.
Verso:
Marking type: Rectangular horizontal white gallery label with printed logo and printed and typed in black description.
Location: Upper left wood frame verso.
Text: ‘Fine / Arts / Gallery / of San Diego [logo to the left of description block] / Exhibition: [printed with line below] Emil Carlsen [typed] / [blank printed line below] / Date: [printed with line below] Aug 23 – Oct 12, 1975 [typed] / Lender: [printed with line below] Mr. and Mrs. Gunnar [typed] / Anderson [typed with line printed below]’.
Marking type: Rectangular horizontal white auction inventory tracking label with black print and UPC tracking bar code.
Location: Upper middle wood frame verso.
Text: ‘10246878038[?]8[?]8[?]9[?]8[?]9[?]5[?] [unclear from photo last several numbers] / [UPC tracking bar code] / 24687803.PIC / SALE – [unclear from image last word]’.
Marking type: Round yellow label with handwritting in ball point pen or pencil.
Location: Upper middle-right wood frame verso.
Text: ‘SHOT / 9/26’.
Marking type: Horizontal rectangular white gallery label with black print and handwritten descriptions in blue ball point pen.
Location: At upper left verso on wood backing.
Text: ‘WORTSMAN / WR [stylized logo] / ROWE GALLERIES INC. / 575 Sutter Street · San Francisco, California 94102 · (415) 433-1576 / TITLE [printed] HORSE GRAZING [handwritten] / ARTIST [printed] EMIL CARLSEN [handwritten] / MEDIUM [printed] OIL ON BOARD [handwritten] SIZE [printed] 14-3/8″ x 11-3/8″ [handwritten] / NO. [printed] E – 143 [handwritten] DATE [printed] PRICE [printed] 650 — [handwritten]’.
Marking type: Handwritten text in black grease pencil.
Location: Upper left wood backing verso.
Text: ‘CAT # [scribbled out number 13] 16’.
Marking type: Rubber block stamp printed in red ink with handwritting in black grease pencil.
Location: Upper middle-left wood backing verso.
Text: ‘WR [stylized letters/insignia left of the entire block of text] / WORTSMAN ROWE INC. / Paintings Acquired From / MRS. DINES CARLSEN / FALLS VILLAGE, CONN. / EMIL AND DINES CARLSEN / NUMBER / E – 143 [handwritten]’.
Marking type: Vertical rectangular white label with handwritting in pencil? hung angled leaning left.
Location: Lower right wood frame verso.
Text: ‘6 of 8’.
ECA category: Landscape
ECA sub-category: Pastoral
Archives of American Art Subjects:
Animal
Animal — Horse
Landscape
Landscape — Tree
Description of work:
Provenance/ownership:
2017 Private collection of Patrick Gilligan [b.1946- ] & Shelley Gilligan [b.1948- ], San Francisco, CA ;
2017 ( Bonhams [1793- ], 580 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022 | 220 San Bruno Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103 )
ca.2011 Private collection of [unknown], Sonoma, CA ;
ca.1975 Private collection of Gunnar A Anderson [1915-2008] and Lucille K (Kindlund) Anderson [1921-2011], Chicago, IL ;
1975 ( Wortsman/Rowe Fine Arts, Inc. [1972-1975], 516 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California 94102 ) ;
1975 Estate of Florence B. G. S. Carlsen [1903-1974], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s daughter-in-law ;
1966 Private collection of Florence B. G. S. Carlsen [1903-1974], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s daughter-in-law ;
before 1966 Estate of Dines Carlsen [1901-1966], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s son ;
1932 Private collection of Luella May (Ruby) Carlsen [c.1869-before 1966], New York, NY, the artist’s wife ;
ca.1930 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .
Exhibition history:
2017 Bonhams [1793- ], San Francisco, CA, “The elegant home : select furniture, silver, decorative and fine arts”, November 13.
1975 Wortsman Rowe Galleries, San Francisco, CA, “The art of Emil Carlsen 1853-1932“, January 10-February 21; Rubicon Gallery, Los Altos, CA, January 17-February 28; The El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, March 2-March 30; Robert Rice Gallery, Houston, TX, April 10-May; Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, NY, June-July; The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA, August 20-October 10; The Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, November-December.
References/citations:
– Bonhams [1793- ], San Francisco, CA, “The elegant home : select furniture, silver, decorative and fine arts”, November 13, 2017, lot #332, illustrated: color on online catalog.
– Rubicon-Wortsman Pub., San Francisco, CA, exhibition catalog, ”The art of Emil Carlsen 1853-1932”, 1975, #16, Illustrated: b&w.
Related works:
– Evening light, 1930 [similar palette, subject and technique].
ECA notes:
Price history:
2017 – $3,937 USD. [auction]
1975 – $650 USD. [retail]
Document information
Document permalink:
http://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=3293
Digital-born document number:
ECA.2014.3293
Digital document provenance:
Original compiled and researched document by the Emil Carlsen Archives, 266 West 21st Street, Suite 4E, New York, NY 10011.
Document license:
Creative Commons Corporation shareAlike (sa) license. Some of the information contained within this document may hold further publication restrictions depending on final use. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine.
Image license:
The author of this artwork died more than 70 years ago. According to U.S. Copyright Law, copyright expires 70 years after the author’s death. In other countries, legislation may differ.
Record birth date:
February 4, 2014.
Last updated: March 29, 2018 at 20:04 pm