Emil Carlsen : Wood interior, 1931.

 

ECA Record Control Number: 3000

Archives of American Art #: 63001136, 83940138

Record Level: Item

Record Type: Movable Work

Work Title: Wood interior

Alternate Work Titles:
1981: Wood interior [from auction catalog]
1975: Wood interior [from exhibition catalog]
1931: Wood interior no. 1 [from exhibition catalog]

Work Date: 1931 [date from Dines Carlsen notebooks on his father’s art works]

Work Creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work Medium: Oil on canvas
Work Dimensions: 32 x 24 inches

Inscribed/Signed Front: unknown

Verso: unknown

ECA Category: Landscape
ECA Sub-Category: Forest

Archives of American Art Subjects:
Landscape
Landscape — Forest
Landscape — Connecticut

Description of Work:

Provenance/Ownership:
1981 Private collection of [unknown] ;
1981 ( Sotheby’s [1744- ], 1334 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021 ) ;
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 ;
1931 ( Warren E. Cox Galleries [1928-1931], 744 Madison Avenue, New York, NY ) ;
1931 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition History:
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.
1931 Warren E. Cox Galleries, 744 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, “Exhibition of Paintings by Emil Carlsen and Dines Carlsen”, February 2-28.

References/Citations:
– Sotheby’s, New York, NY, sale catalog, “sale #4628 M”, May 29, 1981, lot #25, illustrated.
– Rubicon-Wortsman Pub., San Francisco, CA, exhibition catalog, ”Art of Emil Carlsen: 1853-1932”, 1975, #273, illustrated: b&w.
– “Archive of works by Emil Carlsen compiled by Dines Carlsen”, 24 pages, hand-drawn sketches and notes probably by Dines, provided by Linda Hay, ca.1930s, illustrated: b&w, page 14.
– Warren E. Cox Galleries, New York, NY, exhibition catalog, “Exhibition of paintings by Emil Carlsen and Dines Carlsen”, February 2-28, 1931, #11, not illustrated.

Related Works:

ECA Notes:
– Painted in Falls Village, CT in 1931.
– Sotheby’s originally thought the painting was created in ca.1915 but in Dines’ notebooks he says it is 1931.

Price History:

 

Document Information

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Digital-born Document Number:
ECA.2015.3000

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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Record Birth Date:
February 4, 2015

Last Update:
April 28, 2017