Emil Carlsen : Seaside thoughts, 1881.

ECA record control number: 39074

Archives of American Art #: [none]

Record level: Item

Record type: Movable work

Work title: Seaside thoughts  [title created by owner]

Alternate work titles:
2025 : Seaside thoughts  [title created by owner]

Work date: 1881  [from front of canvas]

Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work medium: Oil on canvas
Work dimensions: 16 x 20 inches

Inscribed / signed front:
Location: At lower right.
Dated: Yes
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen 81.’.

ECA category: People
ECA sub-category: Genre

Archives of American Art subjects:
Figure female
Figure female — Full length
Waterscape
Waterscape — Sea

Description of work:

Provenance / ownership:
2025 ( Brock & Co. P.O. Box 648, Concord MA  07142, owner Mark L Brock [1966- ] ) ;
before 2025 ( [Undisclosed private art dealer], RI ) ;
after 1881 [unknown] ;
1881 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition history:

References / citations:

Related works:

ECA notes:
– Sent to ECA directly from the current owner via email on June 4, 2025.
– The previously owners believe the location might be United States—Massachusetts—Scituate.  It may also be Gloucester, MA or Long Island, NY.
– Part of a genre of female portraits from this era with a woman sitting by a ocean or large body of water looking out or reflecting.  Similar to Clement Rollins Grant (1849-1893) : Moonlight woman on the beach, 1891.  This was also part of the European movement of painting seaweed farmer, a similar sub-genre.

Price history:

Document information

Document permalink:
https://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=39074

Digital-born document number:
ECA.2025.39074

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:
June 5, 2025

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