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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Fisherman's Cottage by Harald Sohlberg
    Harald Sohlberg. Fisherman's Cottage, 1906. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
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    Fisherman's Cottage

    by Harald Sohlberg

    Exhibition history

    Venice, VII. Esposizione internazionale d'arte della Città di Venezia, Norwegian room, Apr.22, 1907–Oct. 31, 1907, cat. 42, as Casa sulla costa del mare. New York, American Art Galleries, Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art, Dec. 10-25, 1912, cat. 155; Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Jan. 4-Jan. 26, 1913; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 25-Mar. 16, 1913; Toledo and Boston, 1913. San Francisco, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Norwegian section, Feb. 20–Dec. 4, 1915, no. 275D, as Fisherman’s Hut. Toronto, The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America, 1890-1940, Jan. 13–Mar. 11, 1984, cat. 109; Cincinnati Art Museum, Mar. 31- May 13, 1984. New York, National Academy of Design, Edvard Munch/Harald Solhberg: Landscapes of the Mind, Oct. 12–Jan. 14, 1996, cat. 103. San Francisco, de Young Museum, Jewel City: Art of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Oct. 17, 2015–Jan. 10, 2016. Oslo, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, Harald Sohlberg: Infinite Landscapes, Sept. 27, 2018–Jan. 13, 2019; London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Feb. 13–June 2, 2019. Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Northern Lights, Jan. 26-May 25, 2025, no cat. no.; Buffalo, NY, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Aug. 1, 2025-Jan. 12, 2026, as A House by the Coast (Fisherman's Cottage).

    Publications

    Filippo Grimani, VII. Esposizione internazionale d'arte della Città di Venezia, exh. cat. (Venice: C. Ferrari, 1907), 37, cat. 42 as Casa sulla costa del mare. Christian Brinton, Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art, exh cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), 118, cat. 155. John E.D. Trask, Catalogue de Luxe of the Department of Fine Arts Panama-Pacific International Exposition, exh. cat. (San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company Publishers, 1915), 278, cat. 275D, as Fisherman’s Hut. Roald Nasgaard, The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America 1890-1940, exh. cat. (Toronto: The Art Gallery of Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1984), 113, 114, fig. 74, 115 (ill.), n.p. cat. 109. Øivind Storm Bjerke, Edvard Munch, Harald Sohlberg: Landscapes of the Mind, exh. cat. (New York: National Academy of Design, 1995), 70, 109, 118, cat. 103 as Fisherman's Cottage, 1907, 217. Götz Czymmek and Hans Henrik Brummer, Landschaft als Kosmos der Seele: Malerei des nordischen Symbolismus bis Munch 1880-1910 (Heidelberg: Braus, 1998), 64, fig. 5 (ill.), as Daus Haus des Fischers. James A. Ganz, Emma Acker, Laura A. Ackley, Heidi Applegate, Gergely Barki, Karin Breuer, Melissa E Buron, Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, exh. cat. (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2015), 26, 37-38, n. 100, 365, pl. 162 (color ill.), 399. Marianne Yvenes, ed., Harald Sohlberg: Infinite Landscapes, exh. cat. (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2018), 17, 162, fig. 97 (color ill.), 221, cat. 45, 236 (color ill.). Angela Lampe, Katerina Atanassova, Anne-Maria Pennonen, and Helga Christoffersen, Ulf Küster, ed., Northern Lights, exh. cat. (Riehan/Basel: Fondation Beyeler; Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH, 2025), 12-13 (color ill.), 108, 109 (color ill.), 228, 236, as A House by the Coast (Fisherman's Cottage). James Rondeau, Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 86 (color ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Harald Sohlberg / Norwegian, 1869-1935
    Date
    1906
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    109 × 94 cm (43 × 37 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Place
    Norway
    Department
    Modern Art
    Credit line
    Gift of Edward Byron Smith
    Accession no.
    2000.1

    Provenance

    The artist. Byron Laflin Smith (1853-1914), Chicago, 1914 [Bjerke, 1995]; by descent within the family, to Edward Byron Smith (1909-2002), Lake Forest, IL, by 1984 [Nasgaard, 1984]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 20, 2000.

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