ARTICLE

Unknown publication, “Two Danish-Americn Painters” by Avery Van Sand, volume 1, number 2, February 1924, illustratred: b&w

TRANSCRIPTION
“…
Emil Carlsen, the genial, whose kindly eyes twinkle with a spirit of fun, a youth of seventy-? years, the true artist type. This amazing man, who at seventy looks like fifty is an indefatigable worker. Contrary to the layman’s belief in inspiration no art is born without labor. The finer the art, the more painstaking the labor, yet leaving in its finished product no trace of this. That is Carlsen. Painting and teaching, teaching and painting, scores of years of this, and yet Carlsen has not grown tired, has not grown weary and old.”…

WORKS BY EMIL  CARLSEN

Emil Carlsen : Roman glass, ca.1916.