Emil Carlsen : The canal, ca.1907.

ECA record control number: 39348

Archives of American Art #: -none-

Record level: Item

Record type: Movable work

Work title: The canal  [from museum]

Alternate work titles:
The canal [from museum]
The old town [from museum]

Work date: ca.1907

Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work medium: Oil on canvas
Work dimensions: 15-1/4 x 18 inches

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

Verso:
Marking type:
Location:
Text: ‘ ‘.

ECA category: Landscape
ECA sub-category: Cityscape

Archives of American Art subjects:

Description of work:

Provenance / ownership:
1931 ( Reading Public Museum [1998- ], 500 Museum Rd, Reading, PA 19611 (Accession #1931.19.1) ) ;
ca.1907 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition history:
2018 Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, “Emil Carlsen’s Quiet Harmonies”, March 22, 2018 – July 8, 2018
2011-2015 Springfield Art Museums, Springfield, MA, “American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists’ Colony“, July 14 – October 25, 2015; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, March 21 – June 14, 2015; Frazier History Museum, Louisville, KY, October 3, 2014 – February 1, 2015; Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA, January 25 – April 20, 2014; Ella Sharp Museum of Art and History, Jackson, MI, October 26, 2013 – January 11, 2014; Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, VA, June 1- August 4, 2013; Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA, September 24, 2011 – January 29, 2012.
1915 The Art Club of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, “Twenty-First Annual Exhibition of the Philadelphia Art Club“, February 21 to March 5.
1910 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, “A Collection of Paintings and Sketches by Emil Carlsen Lent by the Folsom Galleries, New York City“, March 18-April 13.

References / citations:
– Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA, Exhibition Catalog, “American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists’ Colony“, Springfield Art Museums, Springfield, MA, July 14 – October 25, 2015; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, March 21 – June 14, 2015; Frazier History Museum, Louisville, KY, October 3, 2014 – February 1, 2015; Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA, January 25 – April 20, 2014; Ella Sharp Museum of Art and History, Jackson, MI, October 26, 2013 – January 11, 2014; Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, VA, June 1- August 4, 2013; Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA, September 24, 2011 – January 29, 2012.
– International Studio, New York, NY, “Philadelphia Art Club Exhibition” by Eugene Castello, April, 1915, Volume 55, No. 218, Page 58, not illustrated.
– Academy Notes, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, “Exhibitions of Works by Emil Carlsen, Childe Hassam, and Frederick Ballard Williams“, April, 1910, Volume 5, Number 2, page 20-27, not illustrated.
– Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Exhibition Catalog, “A Collection of Paintings and Sketches by Emil Carlsen Lent by the Folsom Galleries, New York City“, March 18-April 13, 1910, #13, not illustrated.

Related works:

ECA notes:
– Information provided by Ashley J. Hamilton of the Reading Public Museum via email on August 3, 2015.
– Image: Soren Emil Carlsen (American (Danish born), 1848-1932), The Canal, c. 1910-1920, oil on canvas, 15 ¼ x 18” unframed, 25 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 3” framed. Signed LL “Emil Carlsen”. Courtesy of the Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA.
– Academy Notes, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, “Exhibitions of Works by Emil Carlsen, Childe Hassam, and Frederick Ballard Williams“, April, 1910, Volume 5, Number 2, page 20-27, not illustrated.
…”The Old Town shows some houses on the bank of a stream, which are reflected in the water, and the quality of surface to the stream here portrayed is one of the chief charms of the picture.”…

Price history:

Document information

Document permalink:
http://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=39348

Digital-born document number:
ECA.2018.39348

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 15, 2018

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