ECA record control number: 4716

Archives of American Art #: 83940120

Record level: Item

Record type: Movable work

Work title: Two peacocks

Alternate work titles:
2017: Two peacocks  [title assigned by ECA]

Work date: ca.1889  [date based on related paintings]

Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work medium: Oil on canvas
Work dimensions: 9-1/4 x 11-1/2 inches

Inscribed/signed front: unknown.

Verso: unknown.

ECA category: People
ECA sub-category: Genre

Archives of American Art Subjects:
Animal
Animal — Bird
Animal — Bird — Peacock

Description of work:

Provenance/ownership:
ca.1975 Private collection of [unknown] ;
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 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition history:
1977 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, “Pere et fils: Art of Emil and Dines Carlsen“, August 20 – October 23.
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.

References/citations:
– Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, exhibition catalog, “Pere et fils: Art of Emil and Dines Carlsen“, August 20 – October 23, 1977, #9, not illustrated.
– Rubicon-Wortsman Pub., San Francisco, CA, exhibition catalog, ”The Art of Emil Carlsen: 1853-1932”, 1975, #248.

Related works:
– Peacock, ca.1889.
– Six peacocks, ca.1889.

ECA notes:

Price history:
1975 – [unknown]  [retail]

Document information

Document permalink:
http://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=4716

Digital-born document number:
ECA.2017.4716

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:
February 3, 2017

Last updated: December 24, 2017 at 1:41 am