Emil Carlsen : Still-life [with mallard duck and urn], 1891.
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ECA Record Control Number: 2296
Archives of American Art #: 71060768
Record Level: Item
Record Type: Movable Work
Work Title: Still Life [with mallard duck and urn]
Alternate Work Titles:
2017: Still Life [with mallard duck and urn] [ECA added to title to help differentiate]
2014: Still Life [from museum website]
Work Date: 1891 [date from front of canvas]
Work Creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]
Work Medium: Oil on canvas
Work Dimensions: 33 x 33 inches
Inscribed/Signed Front:
Location: At lower left.
Dated: Yes.
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen. 91.’.
Verso: unknown
ECA Category: Still life
ECA Sub-Category: Game
Archives of American Art Subjects:
Animal
Animal — Bird
Animal — Bird — Duck
Still Life
Still Life — Game
Still Life — Game — Bird
Still Life — Other
Still Life — Other — Container
Description of Work:
“This is an oil painting on canvas of a still life composition that includes a metal urn and a deceased Mallard duck.” [MOCA website]
Provenance/Ownership:
1974 ( Oakland Museum of California [1969- ], 1000 Oak St, Oakland, CA 94607 (Accession #A57.41.1) ) ;
1945 Private collection of Paul Wormser [1892-1953] and Amy Josephine (Klauber) Wormer [1903-1988], San Francisco, CA ;
1891 Private collection of Arthur Frank Mathews [1860-1945] and Lucia (Kleinhans) Mathews [1870-1955], San Francisco, CA, shared an art studio with Carlsen ;
1891 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .
Exhibition History:
1979 California State College, Bakersfield, CA, “exhibition”, unknown dates.
1974 Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, CA, “Romantic Painting by San Francisco Artists Before and After the Turn of the Century from the Collection of the Oakland Museum”, May 13 – June 28.
References/Citations:
– Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, Collection website
Related Works:
ECA Notes:
– Cut from its frame so that it could be saved from the SF 1906 fire. The painting was remounted and used by Arthur Mathews in his re-decoration of the Wormser home at 55 5th Ave., SF.
Price History:
Document Information
Document Permalink:
http://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=2296
Digital-born Document Number:
ECA.2017.2296
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:
February 11, 2014
Last Update:
February 18, 2017