Still Life with Fish

1882

Emil Carlsen

Artist, American, 1853 - 1932

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Chester Dale Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 75.2 x 101 cm (29 5/8 x 39 3/4 in.)
    framed: 101.4 x 126.5 x 10.5 cm (39 15/16 x 49 13/16 x 4 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.10.93

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased circa 1895 from the artist by Charles A. Walker [d. 1920], Boston; his son, M. Leon Walker, Lexington, Massachusetts, from 1920;[1] (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 24 May 1940, no. 120); Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[2] bequest 1963 to NGA.
[1] Letter of 6 June 1940 from Leon Walker to Mary Bullard, Chester Dale's secretary (in NGA curatorial files), states that the picture was purchased by his father around 1895 and that he received it following his father's death in 1920.
[2] Letter of 28 May 1940 from Mary Bullard to Leon Walker (in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1908

  • Second Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1908-1909, no. 109, as Still Life and Symphony of Copper and Brass.

1909

  • Seventy-Ninth Exhibition, The Boston Art Club, 1909, no. 42, as Still Life and Symphony in Copper and Brass.

1943

  • Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1943-1944 (shown only one year, while most of loan remained until 1951).

Bibliography

1965

  • Paintings other than French in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 38, repro.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 20, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 32, repro.

1981

  • Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: repro. 178, 179.

1983

  • Wilmerding 1983, 80, repro. 79.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 37, repro.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 46-48, color repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: Emil. Carlsen. 1882-

Wikidata ID

Q20189554

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