Emil Carlsen : Oriental jars, 1914.
ECA Record Control Number: 1796
Archives of American Art #: 28110188
Record Level: Item
Record Type: Movable Work
Work Title: Oriental jars
Alternate Work Titles:
Work Date: 1914 [date from AAA listing / museum info]
Work Creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]
Work Medium: Oil on canvas
Work Dimensions: 38-1/4 x 34 inches | 38-1/2 x 34-1/4 inches
Inscribed/Signed Front:
Location: At lower right.
Dated: No.
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen.’.
Verso: unknown
ECA Category: Still life
ECA Sub-Category: Orientalia
Archives of American Art Subjects:
Ethnic
Ethnic — Chinese
Still Life
Still Life — Other
Still Life — Other — Container
Description of Work:
Provenance/Ownership:
1974 ( Saint Louis Art Museum [1881- ], One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO 63110-1380 ) ;
1931 Private collection of Nellie Ballard-White [1898?-1972?], St. Louis, MO ;
ca.1915 Private collection of James Franklin Ballard [1851-1931], St. Louis, MO ;
1914 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .
Exhibition History:
1999 Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, NY, “Quiet magic: the still-life paintings of Emil Carlsen“, October 28 – December 10.
1915 City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, “5th annual exhibition of a collection of works from St. Louis homes lent to the museum“, July 11–October.
References/Citations:
– Soren Emil Carlsen: The Hammershoi of Manhattan by Kim Lykke Jensen, Narayana Press, Gylling, Denmark, 2008, illustrated: color on page 78, figure #60.
– Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, NY, exhibition catalog, “Quiet magic: the still-life paintings of Emil Carlsen“, October 28 – December 10, 1999, #34.
– City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, exhibition catalog, “5th annual exhibition of a collection of works from St. Louis homes lent to the museum“, July 11–October, 1915, #11, illustrated: b&w on page 26.
Related Works:
ECA Notes:
City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, exhibition catalog, “5th annual exhibition of a collection of works from St. Louis homes lent to the museum“, July 11–October, 1915, #11, illustrated: b&w on page 26.
“Carlsen is pre-eminently a painter of still life. In this canvas he has lived up to his rightful reputation. The composition is a simple, dignified one. A piece of brocade of blue and gold as a background against which has been placed a dusty black bottle; three blue and white Chinese vases and some small shells complete the arrangement. His pictures are always decorative, but in this composition Carlsen has especially demonstrated the possibilities of still life as decoration.”
Price History:
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Digital-born Document Number:
ECA.2014.1796
Digital Document Provenance:
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Record Birth Date:
February 4, 2014
Last Update:
March 9, 2017