Emil Carlsen : Night, Old Windham, 1904.
ECA record control number: 36120 (old #5216)
Archives of American Art #: JUL J0047766 [digital photo archive]
Record level: Item
Record type: Movable work
Work title: Night, Old Windham [from thesis paper]
Alternate work titles:
1997 : Night, Old Windham [from thesis paper]
1992 : Night, Old Windham [from exhibition catalog]
1926 : Night at Windham [from article]
1917 : A landscape [from magazine article]
1910 : Night, Old Windham [from exhibition catalog]
1910 : Night—Old Windham [from article]
1908 : Night. Old Windham. [from exhibition catalog]
1907 : Night, Old Windham [from exhibition catalog]
1906 : Night, Old Windham [from exhibition catalog]
1905 : Night, Old Windham [from article]
1905 : Night—Old Windham [from exhibition catalog]
1904 : Starlight, Old Windham [from exhibition catalog]
Work date: 1904 [date from front of canvas.]
Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]
Work medium: Oil on canvas
Work dimensions: 50-1/2 x 40 inches | 50 x 40 inches
Inscribed / signed front:
Location: At lower right.
Dated: Yes.
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen. 1904.’.
Verso: unknown
ECA category: Landscape
ECA sub-category: Cityscape
Archives of American Art Subjects:
Architecture exterior
Architecture exterior — Domestic
Architecture exterior — Domestic — House
Cityscape
Cityscape — Time
Cityscape — Time — Night
Landscape
Landscape — Connecticut
Landscape — Connecticut — Windham
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.1926 ( Phillips Memorial Gallery (now called The Phillips Collection) [1921- ], 1600 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009, the Baldwin Collection ) ;
ca.1904 Private Collection of Charles Lansing Baldwin [1879-1952], New York, NY ;
1904 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .
Exhibition History:
2016 Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, “A good summer’s work: J. Alden Weir, Connecticut impressionist“, August 17 – September 11.
2008 The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, “Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly”, June 22 – October 19.
1992 Polk Museum of Art, St, Lakeland, FL, “Connecticut art and artists”, February 1 – March 29.
1980 The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, “Connecticut and American Impressionism”, March 17-May 30.
1930 J. B. Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY, “Paintings From the Duncan Phillips Collection”, December 7 – 24.
c.1926 Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, DC, The Baldwin Collection
1910 Cincinnati Museum, Cincinnati, OH, “Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of American Art“, May 21 – July 20.
1910 Pratt Institute Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “Paintings by Emil Carlsen (35 oil paintings)”, April 19-30.
1910 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, “A Collection of Paintings and Sketches by Emil Carlsen from the Folsom Galleries, New York, NY“, March 18-April 13.
1908 Saint Botolph Club, Boston, MA, “Paintings by Emil Carlsen“, January 6-24.
1907 Cincinnati Museum, Cincinnati, OH, “Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of American Art“, May 18-July 17.
1906 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA, “One Hundred First Annual Exhibition“, January 20 – March 3.
1905 Society of American Artists, New York, NY, “Twenty-Seventh Yearly Exhibition“, March 25-April 30, winner Webb Prize for landscape or marine.
1904 Salmagundi Club, New York, NY, “26th Yearly Exhibition, Group Exhibition – Paintings by Gifford Beal, Emil Carlsen, Paul Dougherty, Robert D. Gauley, Albert L. Groll, Charles W. Hawthorne, and Frederick Ballard Williams“, December 1904 – January 15, 1905.
References/Citations:
– Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, “A Good Summer’s Work: J. Alden Weir, Connecticut Impressionist“, August 17 – September 11, 2016, #x, page x, illustrated: color on page x.
– Florence Griswold Museum website accessed October 8, 2014.
– The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, Exhibition Catalog/Accompanying Book, “Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly”, June 22 – October 19, 2008.
– “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.
– Polk Museum of Art, St, Lakeland, FL, “Connecticut art and artists”, February 1 – March 29, 1992, not illustrated.
– The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Exhibition Catalog, “Connecticut and American Impressionism”, March 17-May 30, 1980, #56.
– The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY, “J. B. Speed Museum Notes”, Sunday, December 14, 1930, page 33, not illustrated.
– “A Collection in the Making: A Survey of the Problems Involved in Collecting Pictures Together with Brief Estimates of the Painters in the Phillips Memorial Gallery” by Duncan Phillips, Washington, DC, 1926, page 42, 81, and 92, illustrated: B&W, Plate LIV.
– The International Studio, “Emil Carlsen” by Duncan Phillips, June, 1917, Volume 61, Number 244, page 105-110, illustrated: B&W, page 108.
– Cincinnati Museum, Cincinnati, OH, Exhibition Catalog, “Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of American Art“, May 21 – July 20, 1910, #52, not illustrated.
– The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, NY, “Art Calendar: Timely Note and Comment“, April 19, 1910, page 26.
– Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Exhibition Catalog, “A Collection of Paintings and Sketches by Emil Carlsen from the Folsom Galleries, New York, NY“, March 18-April 13, 1910, #38, not illustrated.
– Saint Botolph Club, Boston, MA, Exhibition Catalog, “Paintings by Emil Carlsen“, January 6-24, 1908, #2, not illustrated.
– Cincinnati Museum, Cincinnati, OH, Exhibition Catalog, “Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of American Art“, May 18-July 17, 1907, #90, not illustrated.
– Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA, Exhibition Catalog, “One Hundred First Annual Exhibition“, January 20 – March 3, 1906, #345, not illustrated.
– The Evening Post, New York, NY, “Society of American Artists”, March 27, 1905.
– The New York Times, New York, NY, “Portraits and Figures at Art Exhibition, Rivals National Academy”, March 26, 1905, pg. 7.
– Society of American Artists, New York, NY, Exhibition Catalog, “Twenty-Seventh Yearly Exhibition“, March 25-April 30, 1905, #384.
– The New York Herald, New York, NY, “American Artist’s Pictures Shown”, March 24, 1905, pg. 5.
– The New York Times, New York, NY, “Prizes for Painters.“, Sunday, March 19, 1905, page 9, not illustrated.
– New York Times, New York, NY, “What the artists are doing”, January 28, 1906, Sunday, page 42, not illustrated.
– Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, Image #JUL J0047766.
Related Works:
ECA Notes:
“A Collection in the Making: A Survey of the Problems Involved in Collecting Pictures Together with Brief Estimates of the Painters in the Phillips Memorial Gallery” by Duncan Phillips, Washington, DC, 1926, page 42, 81, and 92, illustrated: B&W, Plate LIV.
“Night at Windham is an example of how beautiful is his [Emil Carlsen’s] art when his craft has not overpowered his sentiment for light and for tree forms and his memories of enchanting experience. Carlsen might have been a poet-painter if he had not made so great reputation as an imitator of the surfaces of objects.”
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, NY, “Art Calendar: Timely Note and Comment“, April 19, 1910, page 26.
“In his earlier style is Night-Old Windham. a nocturne in moonlight, the faint light bringing out softly the trunks of great trees and a porter’s lodge on the property of Mr. Carlsen’s next-door friend, J. Alden Weir. In its depth and luminosity of shadows it is restful and no one would doubt the judgement pf the committee that awarded for it the Webb proze in the Society of Artists.”
The New York Times, New York, NY, “Prizes for Painters.“, Sunday, March 19, 1905, page 9, not illustrated.
…”The Webb prize of $300 for the best landscape or marine picture in the exhibition painted by an American artist, without limit of age, who shall not previously have received the prize-To Emil Carlsen, for his picture entitled “Night, Old Windham.”…
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Document Information
Digital-born Document Number:
ECA.2017.5216
Digital Document Provenance:
Original compiled and researched document by the Emil Carlsen Archives, 266 West 21st Street, Suite 4E, New York, NY 10011.
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Record Birth Date:
August 24, 2016
Last Update:
January 21, 2017
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