Emil Carlsen : Still life—the fan, 1918.
ECA Record Control Number: 1317
Archives of American Art #: 73530027, 28110315, 28110016, JUL J0047778
Record Level: Item
Record Type: Movable work
Work Title: Still life—the fan
Alternate Work Titles:
Still life—the fan
Work Date: 1918 [date from museum website]
Work Creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]
Work Medium: Oil on canvas
Work Dimensions: 15 x 18 inches
Inscribed/Signed Front:
Location: At lower left.
Dated: No.
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen.’.
Verso: unknown
ECA Category: Still Life
ECA Sub-Category: Asian
Archives of American Art Subjects:
Still Life
Still Life — Other
Still Life — Other — Container
Still Life — Other — Vase
Ethnic
Ethnic — Chinese
Description of Work:
Provenance/Ownership:
1919 ( Saint Louis Art Museum [1881- ], One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO 63110-1380 (Accession #14:1919) ) ;
1918 ( 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 ) ;
1918 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .
Exhibition History:
1982 St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, “Impressionism reflected: American art 1890-1920”, May 8 – June 27.
1972 M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, “The color of mood: American tonalism 1880-1910“, January 22 – April 2.
1947 Chase Hotel, St. Louis, MO, “title of exhibition unknown”, February 11 – 17.
1999 Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, NY, “Quiet magic: the still-life paintings of Emil Carlsen“, October 28 – December 10.
1918 Macbeth Gallery, New York, NY, “Second annual exhibition of intimate paintings”, December 1? – 31, 1918.
References/Citations:
– “Soren Emil Carlsen: the hammershoi of Manhattan” by Kim Lykke Jensen, Narayana Press, Gylling, Denmark, 2008, illustrated: color, page 66, figure 48.
– Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, NY, Exhibition Catalog, “Quiet magic: the still-life paintings of Emil Carlsen“, October 28 – December 10, 1999, #32.
– St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, MO, “American impressionism glows in show at museum” & ” Art show“, May 6, 1982, page 1 & 4, illustrated: b&w.
– California Art Research, Volume Four, Abstract from WPA Project 2874 (O.P. 65-3-3632), San Francisco, CA, January, 1937, pg. 50-51.
– City Art Museum catalogue of paintings, 3rd edition by St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1924, illustrated, page opposite 17.
– Pots and Pans or Studies In Still-Life Painting by Arthur Edwin Bye, Princeton, NJ, 1921, pages 213-222, not illustrated.
– Scriber’s, New York, NY, “The Macbeth Gallery [ad]“, December 1919, page 7.
– Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, Image #JUL J0047778.
Related Works:
ECA Notes:
– St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, MO, “American impressionism glows in show at museum” & ” Art show“, May 6, 1982, page 1 & 4, illustrated: b&w.
…”Emil Carlsen’s two lovely, hushed still lifes are delicately and gracefully rendered in dim light.”
Price History:
Document Information
Document Permalink:
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Digital-born Document Number:
ECA.2014.1317
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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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:
February 15, 2014
Last Update:
June 18, 2017
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