ECA record control number: 3460

Archives of American Art #: 63005954, 08580706

Record level: Item

Record type: Movable work

Work title: The South Strand, Skagen

Alternate work titles:
1909 : The South Strand, Skagen

Work date: 1909  [unclear where the date originates from]

Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work medium: Oil on canvas
Work dimensions: 40 x 45 inches

Inscribed / signed front:
Location: At lower left.
Dated: No?
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen.’.

Verso: unknown.

ECA Category: Waterscape
ECA Sub-Category: Ship

Archives of American Art Subjects:
Architecture
Architecture — Boat
Architecture — Boat — Rowboat
Landscape
Landscape — Beach
Waterscape
Waterscape — Boat
Waterscape — Weather
Waterscape — Weather— Cloud

Description of work:

Provenance / ownership:
1909 ( Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th & G Streets, N.W., Washington, DC 20560  (accession #1909.9.4) ) ;
ca.1909 Private collection of William T. Evans [1843-1918], Scotch Plains, NJ ;
ca.1909 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition history:
1956 Bureau of the Budget, Washington, DC, “Exhibition”, September 21.
1909 The Engineers’ Club, 32 West 40th Street, New York, NY, “Loan exhibition of paintings by American artists”, April 24 – May 3.
1909 Bauer-Folsom Galleries, New York, NY, “Paintings by Emil Carlsen“, March 30 – April 10.

References / citations:
– Soren Emil Carlsen : the hammershoi of Manhattan by Kim Lykke Jensen, Narayana Press, Gylling, Denmark, 2008, illustrated: color, page 57, figure 39.
– Owner, 1976 : registration records.
– The Engineers’ Club, 32 West 40th Street, New York, NY, exhibition catalog, “Loan exhibition of paintings by American artists”, April 24 – May 3, 1909, #5, not illustrated.
– American Art News, “Engineers’ club exhibit.“, May 1, 1909, volume 7, number 29, page 6, not illustrated.

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Document information

Document permalink:
http://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=3460

Digital-born document number:
ECA.2018.3460

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:
May 27, 2016

Last updated: March 6, 2018 at 19:31 pm