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Nantasket Beach
by Emil Carlsen
Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower right: "Nantasket Beach S. EM. C. 76 26/6"
Exhibition history
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Painting Today and Yesterday in the United States, June 5–Sept. 1. 1941, cat. 13. San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, American Artists Past and Present, Jan–Mar. 1943, no cat. Milwaukee–Downer College, Wisconsin, A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists, 1851–1951, Feb. 13 – Mar. 23, 1951, cat. no. 9. *only checklist on back of symposium brochure, The Arts in Society, Milwaukee–Downer College Feb. 13, 1951. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. Northfield, Minnesota, Carleton College, Jan. 2–22, 1967, no cat. Tampa Museum of Art, At the Water's Edge, Dec. 9, 1989–Mar. 4, 1990; Vero Beach, Florida, Center for the Arts, May 4–June 17, 1990; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, July 8–Sept. 2, 1990; Little Rock, Arkansas Arts Center, Nov. 8, 1990–Jan. 6, 1991, cat. not numbered.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Emil Carlsen (American, born Denmark, 1853-1932)
- Date
- 1876
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 38.7 × 66.8 cm (15 1/4 × 26 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Friends of American Art Collection
- Accession no.
- 1940.1087
Provenance
The artist, Chicago. George F. Daniels and Mary B. Daniels, Oxford, MA, and Putnam, CT, c. 1884. Edward F. Coffin, Worcester, MA, 1897-1923. Maynard Walker Galleries, New York, 1940; sold to Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1940; given to the Art Institute of Chicago.
More by Emil Carlsen in museum collections
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Open-access museum record · AT-00000954
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