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Emil Carlsen : Aboard the Ramona, 1891.

 

ECA record control number: 38667

Archives of American Art #: [none]

Record level: Item

Record type: Movable work

Work title: Aboard the Ramona  [from ECA based on verso label]

Alternate work titles:
2024 : Aboard the Ramona  [from ECA based on verso label]
2024 : Watercolor painting and poem  [from online auction listing]

Work date: 1891  [from verso label]

Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work medium: Watercolor on paper
Work dimensions: 8-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches [unframed] | 16-1/2 x 19-1/2 inches [framed]

Inscribed / signed front:
Location: At lower right [of each image].
Dated: Yes.
Text: ‘E.C.‘.

Verso:
Marking type: White horizontal rectangular label with a handwriting in pencil, attached to a previous brown paper bag backing.
Location: Framed verso middle.
Text: ‘By Emil Carlsen / [horizontal line] / Done in 1891 while onboard / the yacht Ramona as a guest of the Tuckers.’.

ECA category: Waterscape
ECA sub-category: Ships

Archives of American Art subjects:
Architecture
Architecture — Boat
Architecture — Boat — Sailboat
Waterscape
Waterscape — Boat

Description of work:

Provenance / ownership:
after 1891 [tba] ;
after 1891 ( Mr Fiscs house of needful things [on Ebay], El Dorado, CA, Ebay #296639488911 ) ;
after 1891 Private collection of [unknown] ;
1891 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition history:
2024 Mr Fiscs house of needful things [on Ebay], El Dorado, CA, August 20 [range].

References / citations:
– 2024 Mr Fiscs house of needful things [on Ebay], El Dorado, CA, Ebay auction listing, August 20 [range], 2024.  Accessed August 22, 2024 at 3:06 pm EST. https://www.ebay.com/itm/296639488911?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338722076&customid=&toolid=10050

Related works:

ECA notes:
– Was possibly owned by the Joe and Ramona Tucker of CA who where connected to the Nazarene church.  This would then mean that the ship was named after the wife of Joe Tucker.
– TEXT on the front of artwork [poem] : ‘We sail the seas – / on every hand is / life. / And youth and joy / But sometimes we see / wrecks, / Their bones on reefs, and often rotting hulks / moored in fair harbors – as we sail the seas’.
– Ebay listing description: Framed Emil Carlsen (1848-1932) watercolor composed a poem flanked by two round watercolor depictions of sailing vessels. Watercolor on right bears Carlson [sic] monogram lower right. Handwritten notation affixed verso reads, “By Emil Carlsen / Done in 1891 while aboard / the yacht Ramona as a / guest of the TUCKERS. Ramona, a Herreshoff Schooner out of Sausalito, Ca.

Price history:
2024 : $900 USD [auction]

 

Document information

Document permalink:
http://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=38667

Digital-born document number:
ECA.2024.38667

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:
August 22, 2024

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