Emil Carlsen : Little bridge, 1928.
ECA Record Control Number: 3752
Archives of American Art #: 42831508
Record Level: Item
Record Type: Movable Work
Work Title: Little bridge
Alternate Work Titles:
1997: Little bridge [from museum listing on AAA website]
1977: The archway [from exhibition catalog]
ca.1960s: The bridge [from Dines Carlsen notebook]
1925: The stone bridge [from exhibition catalog]
Work Date: 1928 [date from museum site and Dines Carlsen notebook]
Work Creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]
Work Medium: Oil on canvas
Work Dimensions: 25 x 25 inches
Inscribed/Signed Front:
Location: At lower left.
Dated: No.
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen.’.
Verso: unknown
ECA Category: Waterscape
ECA Sub-Category: Falls
Archives of American Art Subjects:
Description of Work:
Provenance/Ownership:
1969 ( Butler Institute of American Art [1919- ], 524 Wick Ave, Youngstown, OH 44505 (Accession #969-O-161) ) ;
ca.1966 Private collection of Dr. John J. McDonough [1908-1998], Youngstown, OH ;
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 ;
1931 ( Warren E. Cox Galleries [1928-1932], 744 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10065 ) ;
1929 ( Macbeth Gallery, The [1892-1953], [1935-1953] 11 East Fifty-seventh Street | [1924-1934] 15 East Fifty-seventh Street | [1906-1923] 450 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY | [1892-1905] 237 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY ) ;
1928 Emil Carlsen, the artist .
Exhibition History:
1992 Salem Branch, BIAA Salem, OH, October 1 – 31.
1983 Westmoreland County Museum, Greensburg, PA, “Impressionism: An American View”, April 16 – May 22; Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH, February 20 – April 3, 1983; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, June 5 – July 17.
1977 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, “Pere et fils: Art of Emil and Dines Carlsen“, August 20 – October 23.
1929 The Macbeth Gallery, New York, NY, “Paintings by Emil Carlsen and Dines Carlsen”, February 5-18, #8 (as Stone Bridge).
References/Citations:
– Sweetkind, Irene S., ed., “The Butler Institute of American Art Index of the Permanent Collection,” Youngstown, OH: Butler Institute of American Art, 1997, pg. 36.
– Butler Institute of American Art, “Sixty years of collecting American art: an index to the permanent collection,” Youngstown, OH: The Institute, 1979.
– Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, exhibition catalog, “Pere et fils: Art of Emil and Dines Carlsen“, August 20 – October 23, 1977, #8, not illustrated
– “Archive of Works by Emil Carlsen Compiled by Dines Carlsen”, 24 pages, hand-drawn sketches and notes probably by Dines, provided by Linda Hay, c1960, illustrated: B&W, page 2, #2.
– Warren E. Cox Galleries, New York, NY, Exhibition Catalog, “Exhibition of Paintings by Emil Carlsen and Dines Carlsen”, February, 1931, #15, not illustrated.
– Macbeth Gallery, New York, NY, “Paintings by Emil Carlsen and Dines Carlsen”, February 5-18, 1929, #8.
Related Works:
ECA Notes:
– Painted in Falls Village, CT in September, 1928.
– There is also a Dines Carlsen painting of this bridge that Dines painted next to his father at the same time.
Price History:
Document Information
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Digital-born Document Number:
ECA.2014.3752
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:
August 31, 2014
Last Update:
April 20, 2017
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