Emil Carlsen : Waterfowl and copper pot still life, 1897.

 

ECA record control number: 28397 (old #5845)

Archives of American Art #: [none]

Record level: Item

Record type: Movable work

Work title: Waterfowl and copper pot still life [from exhibition catalog]

Alternate work titles:
2007 : Waterfowl and copper pot still life [from exhibition catalog]

Work date: 1897 [from front of canvas]

Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work medium: Oil on canvas
Work dimensions: 28 x 41 inches

Inscribed/signed front:
Location: At lower left.
Dated: Yes.
Text: ‘Emil Carlsen. 1897.’.

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
Still Life — Other — Dish

Description of work:

Provenance/ownership:
2017 ( Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [1900- ], 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX 77005, the Hevrdejs Collection (accession #) ) ;
2013 ( The Hevrdejs Foundation [2013- ], Houston, TX ) ;
2004 Private collection of the Frank James Hevrdejs [1945- ] and Michelle Hubbard (Sackett) Hevrdejs [1945- ], Houston, TX ;
1925 Private collection of Glenn Ford McKinney [1869-1934] and Alice Jane Chandler (Webster) McKinney [1876-1916], New York, NY ;
1925 ( The Anderson Galleries [1887-1934], 489 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016 ) ;
after 1897 Private collection of [unknown] ;
1897 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition history:
2017 – 2018 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, “Two centuries of American still-life painting”, January 14 – April 9, 2017; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, April 20 – July 30, 2017; Tacoma Museum of Art, Tacoma, WA, October 2017 – January 2018.
2007 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, “American Still Life Painting from the Hevrdejs Collection”, February 10 – June.

References/citations:
– Two centuries of American still-life painting : the Frank and Michelle Hevrdejs collection by William H. Gerdts, distributed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Yale University Press, 2017.
– A.J. Kollar Fine Paintings, LLC, “American painting catalog 2004-2005”, Seattle, WA, illustrated: color, page 4.

Related works:
– Duck still life, 1897. [same still life objects and game used in a different composition.]

ECA notes:

Price history:

 

Document information

Document permalink:
https://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=28397

Digital-born document number:
ECA.2014.28397

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:
October 30, 2014

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