Emil Carlsen : Charleston harbor, 1909.

 

Charleston Harbor (also called Moonlight & Moonlight on the Kattegat), 1909
Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]
Oil on canvas laid down on masonite
40 x 45 inches | 40 x 44-3/4 inches

Signed: ?

Archives of American Art #: 83940009

Provenance:
c.1960s Private collection of Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Shaw, CA?
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1909 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1909 Private collection of George A. Hearn, Esquire, New York, NY
1909 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist

Exhibitions:
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.
1909 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, “Fourth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists”, May 10 – August 30.

References:
– “Soren Emil Carlsen: The Hammershoi of Manhattan” by Kim Lykke Jensen, Narayana Press, Gylling, Denmark, 2008, illustrated: color, page 51, figure 33.
– Rubicon-Wortsman Pub., San Francisco, CA, Exhibition Catalog, ”Art of Emil Carlsen: 1853-1932”, 1975, #14, Illustrated: B&W.
– 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, “Fourth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists”, May 10 – August 30, 1909, #26, illustrated: b&w on page 17.
– Palette and Bench, “On Painting with Tempera” by Emil Carlsen, June-July, 1909, Volume 1, #9-10, pg. 202-203, 224-225, illustrated: B&W.

Notes:
– Somehow this painting was thought to be of Charleston Harbor when in fact it is Denmark’s Kattegat.

– 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.
…”On the center panel, placed between these two pictures just described, was seen the impressive Moonlight on the Kattegat, which recently was purchased by the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy for its permanent collection. This work is full of poetry and is most appealing in its beauty. It is in character similar to the one by Mr. Carlsen, shown in the Fourth Annual Exhibition of Selected Works by American Artists last year, which was, it will be remembered, lent by Mr. George A. Hearn of New York, who afterwards presented it to the Metropolitan Museum. It will be interesting to know in this connection that the Kattegat and Skagerak are names for the ocean on either side of the most northern part of Denmark, which is one of Mr. Carlsen’s favorite sketching places.”…

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