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San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, “School of Design”, September 28, 1890, Page 17

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“School of Design

…Emil Carlsen is at work on a couple of still lifes and a portrait. The latter he is executing in Sausalito, and it is the most important work he has on hand. One of the still lifes has for its subject a book, on the flyleaf of which the words ‘L’Avare, comedie en une actre’ can be read. In the right foreground is a little Japanese idol with a huge cranium, while scattered in front of the figure and across the picture is some jewelry. The whole canvas is only about 9×12, and is a humorous, pretty bit of work, with blue as the prevailing tint. A graceful glass vase, with bunches of Malaga grapes round the base, is the subject of a second still life. Mr. Carlsen has about a dozen pupils, and their work is clever.”…

WORKS BY EMIL CALSEN