Emil Carlsen : Godwin’s Ridge, Greenwich, CT, 1912.
ECA Record Control Number: 3187
Archives of American Art #: 85900024
Record Level: Item
Record Type: Movable Work
Work Title: Godwin’s Ridge, Greenwich, CT
Alternate Work Titles:
Godburn’s Ridge
The Cliff
Goodwin’s Ridge
Work Date: 1912 [date from museum website.]
Work Creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]
Work Medium: Oil on canvas
Work Dimensions: 24 x 38 inches | 24 x 36 inches
Inscribed/Signed Front:
Location: At lower left.
Dated: No.
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen.’.
Verso: unknown
ECA Category: Landscape
ECA Sub-Category: Hills
Archives of American Art Subjects:
Landscape
Landscape — Connecticut
Landscape — Mountain
Landscape — Rocks
Description of Work:
Provenance/Ownership:
2001 ( Florence Griswold Museum [1993- ], 96 Lyme St, Old Lyme, CT 06371, donated by the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company ) ;
1985 ( Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company [1866- ], One State Street, Hartford, CT 06102 & 100 Wall St #605, New York, NY 10005 (Accession #85.9) ) ;
ca.1984 ( Thomas Colville Fine Arts [1973- ], 111 Old Quarry Road, Guilford, CT 06437 | 1000 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10075 ) ;
ca.1984 ( Vance Jordan Fine Art [1987-2003], 958 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021 | Jordan-Volpe Gallery [c.1978-1987], 457 West Broadway, New York, NY ) ;
ca.1975 ( The Sporting Gallery, Inc./R. Gordon Barton [1955- ], P.O. Box 146, Middleburg, VA 22117 ) ;
1975 ( Wortsman/Rowe Fine Arts, Inc. [1972-1975], 516 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California 94102 ) ;
1975 Estate of Florence B. G. S. Carlsen [1903-1974], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s daughter-in-law ;
1966 Private collection of Florence B. G. S. Carlsen [1903-1974], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s daughter-in-law ;
before 1966 Estate of Dines Carlsen [1901-1966], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s son ;
1932 Private collection of Luella May (Ruby) Carlsen [c.1869-before 1966], New York, NY, the artist’s wife ;
1912 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .
Exhibition History:
2009-2010 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, “Call the Coast: Art Colonies of New England”, June 25 – October 12, 2009; Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, October 24, 2009 – January 31, 2010.
1997 Fleischer Museum [1990- ], Scottsdale, AZ, “East Meets West American Impressionism“, February 9 – May 4.
1981 New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, “Three Centuries of Connecticut Art”, April 22 – May 31.
1977 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, “Pere et fils: Art of Emil and Dines Carlsen“, August 20 – October 23.
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.
1958 The Grand Central Art Gallery, New York, NY, “Memorial Exhibition of Emil Carlsen, N. A. 1853-1932“, January 14-25.
1923 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, “The Painting of Emil Carlsen“, April 3-29.
1923 The Macbeth Gallery, 450 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, “Recent Paintings by Emil Carlsen, N.A.“, March 6 – March 26.
References/Citations:
– Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England, Amy Kurtz Lansing, Susan Danly, 2009, Pg. 52, #17.
– Fleischer Museum [1990- ], Scottsdale, AZ, Exhibition catalog, “East Meets West American Impressionism“, February 9 – May 4, 1997, not numbered, illustrated: color on page 34 [un-numbered page].
– “Emil Carlsen (1853-1932) As Landscape Painter: A Chronological Introduction to Some of the Major Works and Their Critical Reception” by Valerie Leeds, Spring, 1997.
– Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, 1990.
– “Emil Carlsen Ad for The Jordan-Volpe Gallery“, Unknown Magazine, 1984, page x, illustrated: color.
– New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, Exh. Cat., “Three Centuries of Connecticut Art”, 1981.
– Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, exhibition catalog, “Pere et fils: Art of Emil and Dines Carlsen“, August 20 – October 23, 1977, #24, not illustrated.
– “Emil Carlsen Ad for R. Gordon Barton“, The Magazine Antiques, xxxx?, page 60, illustrated: color.
– Rubicon-Wortsman Pub., San Francisco, CA, Exhibition Catalog, ”Art of Emil Carlsen: 1853-1932”, 1975, #280, Illustrated: B&W.
– “Archive of Works by Emil Carlsen Compiled by Dines Carlsen”, 24 pages, hand-drawn sketches and notes by Dines, provided by Linda Hay, c1960, illustrated: B&W, page 19.
– The Grand Central Art Gallery, New York, NY, Exhibition Catalog, “Memorial Exhibition of Emil Carlsen, N. A. 1853-1932“, January 14-25, 1958, #3, not illustrated.
– The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Exhibition Catalog, “The Painting of Emil Carlsen“, April 3-29, 1923, #22, not illustrated.
– New York Evening Post, “Paintings by Carlsen“, March 17, 1923.
– New-York Tribune, “Recent Works by Emil Carlsen, Mrs. Sears and Others“, March 11, 1923.
– New York Times, New York, NY, “Emil Carlsen’s Exhibition.”, March 11, 1923.
– American Art News, “Emil Carlsen’s Paintings“, March 10, 1923.
– The Macbeth Gallery, New York, NY, Exhibition Catalog, “Recent Paintings by Emil Carlsen, N.A.“, March 6 – March 26, 1923, #16, not illustrated.
Related Works:
ECA Notes:
American Art News, “Emil Carlsen’s Paintings”, March 10, 1923.
“…his one landscape ‘Goodwin’s Ridge,’ which is filled with the hot sunlight of a summer’s afternoon.”
New-York Tribune, “Recent Works by Emil Carlsen, Mrs. Sears and Others”, March 11, 1923.
“Very attractive, too, is ‘Goodwin’s Ridge,’ a landscape in which the treatment of trees and the grassy foreground just trembles on the verge of bringing back the feathery touch of Alden Weir. But this revival does not quite come off.”
New York Evening Post, “Paintings by Carlsen”, March 17, 1923
“‘Goodwin’s Ridge’ and the clouds of ‘Summer Light’ are most pleasing landscapes and handled in a freer manner than the paintings of coast and sea.”
New York Times, New York, NY, “Emil Carlsen’s Exhibition.”, March 11, 1923.
“Certainly ‘Goodwin’s Ridge,’ in his exhibition at the Macbeth Galleries is a delightful xx xx xx high in key and close in value.
– Painted in Falls Village, CT.
Price History:
1923 – $1,000 USD. [worth $13,919.94 in 2014]
Document Information
Digital-born Document Number:
ECA.2014.3187
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:
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Record Birth Date:
March 2, 2014
Last Update:
January 10, 2017
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