Emil Carlsen : Nantasket Beach, 1876.

 

ECA record control number: 3524

Archives of American Art #: 12000038

Record level: Item

Record type: Movable work

Work title: Nantasket Beach

Alternate work titles:
Nantasket Beach

Work date: 1876 [date from front of canvas]

Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work medium: Oil on canvas
Work dimensions: 15-1/4 x 26-5/16 inches

Inscribed/signed front:
Location: At lower right.
Dated: Yes.
Text: ‘Nantasket Beach. S. Em. C. 76 26/6.’.

Verso: unknown

ECA category: Waterscape
ECA sub-category: Ship

Archives of American Art Subjects:
Architecture
Architecture — Boat
Architecture — Boat — Sailboat
Landscape
Landscape — Beach

Description of work:

Provenance/ownership:
1940 ( Art Institute of Chicago [1879- ], 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603, Friends of American Art Collection, accession #1940.1087 ) ;
1940 Private collection of the Friends of American Art Collection, Chicago, IL ;
1923 ( Maynard Walker Galleries [1935-1967], [1945-1967] 117 East 57th Street | [1935-1945] 108 East 57th Street, New York, NY | [1938-1967?] Los Angeles, CA ) ;
1897 Private collection of Edward Francis Coffin [1873-1949], Worcester, MA ;
ca.1884 Private collection of George F. Daniels [1820-1897] & Mary B. Daniels [?-?], Oxford, MA | Putnam, CT ;
1876 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition history:
1989-1991 Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, “At the water’s edge”, December 9, 1989 – March 4, 1990 ; Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida, May 4 – June 17, 1990 ; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA, July 8 – September 2, 1990 ; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK, November 8, 1990 – January 6, 1991.
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.
1967 Carleton College, Northfield, MN, “[exhibition]”, January 2-22, reproduction.
1951 Milwaukee-Downer College, Milwaukee, WI, “A century of landscape painting by American artists : 1851-1951”, February 13 – March 23.
1943 San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, “American artists past and present,” January – March.
1941 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, “Painting today and yesterday in the United States,” June 5 – September 1.

References/citations:
– Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, website, accessed December 20, 2017, “Nantasket Beach > Exhibition, publication and ownership histories”, updated [unknown], http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/39691?search_no=1&index=1
– “File:Emil carlsen, spiaggia di nantasket, 1876.jpg”. Wikimedia Commons. Updated October 28, 2016. Accessed December 20, 2017. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emil_carlsen,_spiaggia_di_nantasket,_1876.jpg
– Emil Carlsen : conscious painting by William Eric Indursky, Emil Carlsen Archives, New York, NY, 2017, page 60, figure 53, illustrated : color on page 60.
– Emil Carlsen (1853-1932) as landscape painter : a chronological introduction to some of the major works and their critical reception by Valerie Leeds, spring, 1997.
– Art & Antiques, “Emil Carlsen : lyrical impressionist” by Gertrude Sill, March – April, 1980, pages 88-95, illustrated: b&w on page 95.
– Rubicon-Wortsman Pub., San Francisco, CA, exhibition catalog, ”The art of Emil Carlsen 1853-1932”, 1975, #50 [reproduction].
– Milwaukee-Downer College, Milwaukee, WI, exhibition catalog, “A century of landscape painting by American artists : 1851-1951”, February 13 – March 23, 1951, #9.
– Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago (1907-1951), Chicago, IL, volume 35, number 5, September – October, 1941, pages 78-79.
1941 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, exhibition catalog, “Painting today and yesterday in the United States,” June 5 – September 1, #13.
– Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, accession # 1940.1087.

Related works:

ECA notes:
– This may be the Warren Sawyer, which was lost on the night of December 22, 1884.

Price history:

 

Document information

Document permalink:
https://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=3524

Digital-born document number:
ECA.2014.3524

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:
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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:
September 5, 2014

Last updated: December 20, 2017 at 18:47 pm