Emil Carlsen : Summer light, 1915.
ECA Record Control Number: 3585
Archives of American Art #: 06910221
Record Level: Item
Record Type: Movable work
Work Title: Summer light
Alternate Work Titles:
1923: Summer light [from exhibition catalog]
Work Date: 1915 [date from museum website]
Work Creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]
Work Medium: Oil on canvas
Work Dimensions: 40 x 30 inches
Inscribed/Signed Front:
Location: At lower right.
Dated: No.
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen.’.
Verso: unknown
ECA Category: Waterscape
ECA Sub-Category: Ship
Archives of American Art Subjects:
Architecture
Architecture — Boat
Architecture — Boat — Rowboat
Waterscape
Waterscape — Boat
Waterscape — Sea
Description of Work:
Provenance/Ownership:
1948 ( Wadsworth Atheneum [1844- ], 600 Main St, Hartford, CT 06103, Gift of Augustus Martin Gerdes [1869-1952] (Accession #1948.167) ) ;
ca.1923 Private collection of Augustus Martin Gerdes [1869-1952] and Mrs. Martin Gerdes [ca.1870-], New Canaan, CT ;
1923 ( 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 ) ;
1915 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .
Exhibition History:
1923 Macbeth Gallery, New York, NY, “Recent paintings by Emil Carlsen“, March 6-26.
References/Citations:
– American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1996, page 172, illustrated: b&w plate #17.
– Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.
– New York Evening Post, New York, NY, “Paintings by Carlsen“, March 17, 1923.
– New-York Tribune, New York, NY, “Recent works by Emil Carlsen, Mrs. Sears and others“, March 11, 1923.
– American Art News, New York, NY, “Emil Carlsen’s paintings“, March 10, 1923.
– Macbeth Gallery, New York, NY, exhibition catalog, “Recent paintings by Emil Carlsen, N.A.”, March 6-26, 1923, #15, not illustrated.
Related Works:
ECA Notes:
– New-York Tribune, New York, NY, “Recent works by Emil Carlsen, Mrs. Sears and others“, March 11, 1923.
“The beautiful cloud forms filling the sky in his Summer Light, …”
– American Art News, New York, NY, “Emil Carlsen’s paintings“, March 10, 1923.
“…Summer Light, a composition familiar among his past works since it merely includes a solitary figure in a boat on a broad expanse of calm sea overhung by masses of cumulus clouds. But the finer element in this painting is in the reflections of the clouds in the level ocean, faint tones as delicate as the hues of the petals of a cherry bud and as lightly touching the surface of the sea.”
– New York Evening Post, New York, NY, “Paintings by Carlsen“, March 17, 1923
“Goodwin’s Ridge and the clouds of Summer Light are most pleasing landscapes and handled in a freer manner than the paintings of coast and sea.”
Price History:
Document Information
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Digital-born Document Number:
ECA.2015.3585
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:
January 6, 2015
Last Update:
March 25, 2017
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