Connecticut Hillside
American (1853-1932)
Connecticut Hillside, circa 1920
Oil on canvas, 29 x 27 inches
Signed Emil Carlsen lower right
Provenance
Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1921
Walter H. Schulze Memorial Collection
Acquired as a gift from the above, 1930
Art Institute of Chicago, 1930-2016
Exhibited
The Art Club of Philadelphia, Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Lilian Westcott Hale, Emil Carlsen, and Charles H. Davis, 1923, no. 11
New York, The Macbeth Gallery, Recent Paintings by Emil Carlsen, N.A., 1921
Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1933, no. 436, p. 60, illustrated
Storrs, Connecticut, William Benton Museum of Art, Connecticut and American Impressionism, 1980, no. 6, pp. 56, 63, illustrated
Literature
“The Walter H. Schulze Memorial,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 24, 1930, p. 79
“Emil Carlsen,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 26, 1932, p. 35
Art Institute of Chicago, Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 145
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 67
Donelson F. Hoopes, The American Impressionists, New York, 1972, pp. 7, 110–11, illustrated
Emil Carlsen (1853-1932) As Landscape Painter: A Chronological Introduction to Some of the Major Works and Their Critical Reception, 1997
Kim Lykke Jensen, Soren Emil Carlsen: The Hammershoi of Manhattan, Gylling, Denmark, 2008, fig. 55, p. 73, illustrated