SAL record control number: 129664 ;

Record level: Item ;

Record type: Movable work ;

Work title:  Connecticut hillside [from dealer paperwork] ;

Alternate work titles:
2022 : Connecticut hillside [from dealer paperwork] ;
2016 : Connecticut hillside [from auction catalog]
1997 : Connecticut hillside [from thesis]
1980 : Connecticut hillside [from exhibition catalog & magazine article]
1933 : Connecticut hillside [from exhibition catalog]
1923 : Connecticut hillside [from exhibition catalog]
1921 : Connecticut hillside [from exhibition catalog]

Work date: ca.1920  [from dealer paperwork] ;

Work creator: Søren Emile “Emil” Carlsen (1848-1932) [RA 1903-1932] ;

Work medium: Oil on canvas ;
Work dimensions: 29 x 27 inches ;

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

Verso: [unknown] ;

SAL category: Oil ;
SAL sub-category: Landscape ;

Archives of American Art subjects:
Landscape
Landscape — Connecticut
Landscape — Mountain
Landscape — Tree

Description of work:

Provenance:
2016 ( Thomas Colville Fine Arts [1973- ], 111 Old Quarry Road, Guilford, CT 06437 | 1000 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10075 ) ;
2016 ( Sotheby’s [1744- ], 1334 York Avenue, New York 10021 ) ;
1930 ( Art Institute of Chicago [1879- ], 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603, Walter H. Schulze Memorial Collection (Accession #1930.350 ; de-accessioned April, 2016) ) ;
ca.1923 Private collection of Paul Schulze, Jr. [1895-1959] and Grace [Gracemary] (Cook) Schulze [1905-1972], donated to the Art Institute of Chicago in honor of their soldier son, Walter H. Schulze [1893-1919], Chicago, IL ;
1921 ( Macbeth Gallery, The [1892-1953], 237 Fifth Avenue in New York [1892-1905] | 450 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY [1906-1923] | 15 East Fifty-seventh Street [1924-1934] | 11 East Fifty-seventh Street [1935-1953] ) ;
1920 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition history:
2016 Sotheby’s, New York, NY, “American art“, sale #9563, October 20.
1980 William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Stores, CT, “Connecticut and American Impressionism”, March 17 – May 30.
1933 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, “A century of progress: exhibition of paintings & sculpture“, June 1 – November 1.
1923 The Art Club of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, “Exhibition of oil paintings by Lilian Westcott Hale, Emil Carlsen, and Charles H. Davis“, February 24 – March 18.
1921 Macbeth Gallery, New York, NY, “Recent paintings by Emil Carlsen N.A. “, February 9-28.

References / citations:
– Sotheby’s, New York, NY, sales catalog, “American art“, sale #9563, October 20, 2016, lot #63, illustrated: color on page 50.
– “Soren Emil Carlsen: the hammershoi of Manhattan” by Kim Lykke Jensen, Narayana Press, Gylling, Denmark, 2008, illustrated: color, page 73, figure 55.
– “Emil Carlsen (1853-1932) as landscape painter: a chronological introduction to some of the major works and their critical reception” by Valerie Leeds, spring, 1997.
– William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Stores, CT, “Connecticut and American impressionism”, March 17 – May 30, 1980.
– Art & Antiques, “Emil Carlsen: lyrical impressionist” by Gertrude Sill, March-April, 1980, pg. 88-95, not illustrated, pg. 92.
– Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, exhibition catalog, “A century of progress: exhibition of paintings & sculpture“, June 1 – November 1, 1933, #436, not illustrated.
– The Art Club of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, exhibition catalog, “Exhibition of oil paintings by Lilian Westcott Hale, Emil Carlsen, and Charles H. Davis“, February 24 – March 18, 1923, #11, not illustrated.
– The Macbeth Gallery, New York, NY, exhibition catalog, “Recent paintings by Emil Carlsen N.A. “, February 9-28, 1921, #11, not illustrated.
– Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, Image #JUL J0047772, #JUL J0047840

Notes:

– Art & Antiques, “Emil Carlsen: lyrical impressionist” by Gertrude Sill, March-April, 1980, pg. 88-95, illustrated: color.
…”The undulating landscape in Connecticut hillside (1920) illustrates Isham’s analysis. It is reduced to blocks of color, all low key in tonality with only a block of rusty red—a barn—to arrest the eye in the center of the canvas.”…

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Digital-born document number:
SAL.2022.129664

Record birth date:
July 15, 2022

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