Emil Carlsen : Untitled (moon rise), ca.1930.

 

ECA Record Control Number: 15806

Archives of American Art #: -none-

Record Level: Item

Record Type: Movable Work

Work Title: Untitled (Moon Rise)

Alternate Work Titles:
2016: Untitled (Moon Rise) [from online auction]

Work Date: ca.1930

Work Creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work Medium: Oil on canvas
Work Dimensions: 6-1/4 x 8 inches | 12 x 13-3/4 inches (framed)

Inscribed/Signed Front:
Location: At lower right.
Dated: No.
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen.’.

Verso: none

ECA Category: Landscape
ECA Sub-Category: Cityscape

Archives of American Art Subjects:
Architecture
Architecture exterior
Architecture exterior — Domestic
Architecture exterior — Domestic — House
Cityscape
Cityscape — Celestial
Cityscape — Celestial — Moon
Landscape
Landscape — Farm
Landscape — Time
Landscape — Time — Night

Description of Work:
A horizontal composition of a series of farmhouse buildings in a field set against a tree line with the moon rising. The paintings foreground is of a green simplified field. The middle-ground is of a simplified grey series of four or five farm buildings. They are block-like and begin just left of canvas center and continue to the right but end before the edge and are contained within the picture. The focus of the painting is of the bright moon rising, left of center canvas, above the tree line set in the mid-ground. The sky is a grayed-blue of the night sky. The horizon line is about one-third from the bottom of the canvas. The farm buildings, treeline and moon occupy the middle third and the sky occupies the top third plus. [ECA]

Provenance/Ownership:
ca.2016 unknown
2016 (Clars Auction Gallery [1948- ], 5644 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94609)
2016 Estate of Thomas James Perkins [1932-2016], Marin County, CA ;
ca.1973 Private collection of Thomas James Perkins [1932-2016], Marin County, CA .
ca.1966 Garzoli Gallery [1959- ], 930 B Street San Rafael, CA 94901
1966 Estate of Florence B. G. S. Carlsen [1903-1974], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s daughter-in-law ;
before 1966 Estate of Dines Carlsen [1901-1966], Falls Village, CT, the artist’s son ;
1932 Luella Ruby May Carlsen [c.1869-before 1966], New York, NY, the artist’s wife ;
ca.1930 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition History:
2016 Clars Auction Gallery, Oakland, CA, Sale Number 578, “Art, Antique, Jewelry, Asian”, November 13.

References/Citations:
– Clars Auction Gallery, Oakland, CA, Sale Number 578, “Art, Antique, Jewelry, Asian”, November 13, 2016, lot #6140, illustrated: color.

Related Works:
– Farmhouses, ca.1922 [same farm and buildings but from a different angle and most probably form another year]

ECA Notes:

Price History:
2016 – $1,500 USD (Auction Estimate)

 

Document Information

Digital-born Document Number:
ECA.2016.15806

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:
November 2, 2016

Last Update:
November 4, 2016