Emil Carlsen : Still life, brass bowl, ducks and bottles, 1883.
ECA Record Control Number: 2073
Archives of American Art #: 02960188
Record Level: Item
Record Type: Movable Work
Work Title: Still life, brass bowl, ducks and bottles
Alternate Work Titles:
Still life with ducks
Work Date: 1883 [date from front of canvas]
Work Creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]
Work Medium: Oil on canvas
Work Dimensions: 37-7/8 x 50-1/8 inches
Inscribed/Signed Front:
Location: At lower left.
Dated: Yes.
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen. 1883-‘.
Verso: unknown
ECA Category: Still Life
ECA Sub-Category: Game
Archives of American Art Subjects:
Animal
Animal — Bird
Animal — Bird — Duck
Still Life — Game
Still Life — Game — Bird
Still Life — Other
Still Life — Other — Container
Still Life — Other — Cookware
Description of Work:
Provenance/Ownership:
1976 ( Los Angeles County Museum of Art [1910- ], 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036 (Accession #M.76.67.1) ) ;
ca.1960s Private collection of Jo Ann S Ganz [ca.1930- ] and Julian A Ganz, Jr. [ca.1930- ], Los Angeles, CA ;
ca.1950s Private collection of Joseph Douglas Schwerin [1938-2014], New York, NY ;
after 1883 Private collection of [unknown] ;
1883 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.
1883 The Boston Art Club, Boston, MA, “Twenty-Seventh Exhibition of Oil Paintings“, January 25-February 17.
References/Citations:
– “Soren Emil Carlsen: The Hammershoi of Manhattan” by Kim Lykke Jensen, Narayana Press, Gylling, Denmark, 2008, illustrated: color, page 36, figure 18.
– Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, NY, Exhibition Catalog, “Quiet Magic: The Still-Life Paintings of Emil Carlsen“, October 28 – December 10, 1999, #1.
– Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick, “American Art: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection,” Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991, pg. 186. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1978.
– Gerdts, William H. and Russell Burke, “American Still-Life Painting,” New York: Praeger, 1971, pg. 203.as “Still Life with Ducks.”
– Gerdts, William H. and Russell Burke, “American Still-Life Painting,” New York: Praeger, 1971.
Illustration: Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick, “American Art: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection,” Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991, pg. 186.
– The Boston Art Club, Boston, MA, Exhibition Catalog, “Twenty-Seventh Exhibition of Oil Paintings“, January 25-February 17, 1883, shown as “Still Life”, #87, not illustrated.
– “The Boston Art Club: Exhibition Record 1873-1909″, edited by Janice H. Chadbourne, Karl Gabosh, and Charles O. Vogel, 1991, pg. 105-106, not illustrated.
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Digital-born Document Number:
ECA.2015.2073
Digital Document Provenance:
Original compiled and researched document by the Emil Carlsen Archives, 266 West 21st Street, Suite 4E, New York, NY 10011.
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Record Birth Date:
January 31, 2015
Last Update:
February 13, 2017