Emil Carlsen : the old mill, ca.1907.

ECA record control number: 39333

Archives of American Art #: -none-

Record level: Item

Record type: Movable work

Work title: The old mill [from catalog] ;

Alternate work titles:
The old mill [from catalog] ;

Work date: ca.1907  [based on style could be ca.1907-1915]

Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work medium: Oil on canvas
Work dimensions: 21 x 23 inches [unframed]

Inscribed / signed front:
Location: At lower left.
Dated: No.
Text: ‘Emil. Carlsen.‘.

ECA category: Landscape
ECA sub-category: Cityscape

Archives of American Art subjects:
Architecture
Architecture exterior
Architecture exterior — Domestic
Architecture exterior — Domestic — House
Cityscape
Cityscape — Time
Cityscape — Time — Noon
Waterscape

Description of work:

Provenance / ownership:
2026 ( Denver Art Museum [1893- ], 100 W 14th Avenue Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204, accession #2026.174 ) ;
2019 Private collection of Wendy (Wolf) Kaufman [b.1956], Denver, CO in memory of Estelle Rae Wolf [1933-2018], Denver, CO ;
2019 ( Sotheby’s, New York, NY ) ;
ca.1990s Private collection of [unknown] ;
ca.1990s ( The Jordan-Volpe Gallery Inc., New York, NY ) ;
ca.1907 Emil Carlsen, the artist .

Exhibition history:
2019 Sotheby’s, New York, NY, “American art,” March 6.
ca.1990s The Jordan-Volpe Gallery Inc., New York, NY, “[unknown exhibition]”, [unknown date] ;

References / citations:
– Sotheby’s, New York, NY, “American art,” March 6, 2019, lot #57, color [online] ;
– The Jordan-Volpe Gallery Inc., New York, NY, “[unknown exhibition]”, [unknown date] ;

Related works:
– Summer noontime (at the old mill), ca.1907.  [same location]

ECA notes:
– The location shown is possibly Amesville (Falls Village), Connecticut, probably the Amesville Paper Mill

Price history:
2019 – $25,000 USD – $35,000 USD [estimate] [auction] ;

Document information

Document permalink:
https://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=39333

Digital-born document number:
ECA.2026.39333

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:
March 22, 2026

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