The Picture from Thibet
c. 1920
Painter, American, 1853 - 1932

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 97 × 68.9 cm (38 3/16 × 27 1/8 in.)
framed: 107.95 × 80.65 × 5.08 cm (42 1/2 × 31 3/4 × 2 in.) -
Accession
2014.136.63
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Purchased 1926 by James Parmelee [1855-1931], Washington;[1] by inheritance 1931 to his widow, Alice Maury Parmelee [1866-1940], Washington; bequest 1941 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] In James Parmelee's will (dated 11 October 1926), this painting is described: "a painting by Emil Carlsen, entitled "The Picture from Thibet," acquired by me in the Spring of 1926."
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1921
Recent Paintings by Emil Carlsen, N.A., Macbeth Gallery, New York, 9-28 February 1921, no. 4.
1922
One Hundred and Seventeenth Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 5 February - 26 March 1922, no. 367.
Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, City Art Museum, Saint Louis, 15 September - 25 October 1922, no. 20.
1923
Special Exhibition of Paintings by Emil Carlsen, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wasingotn, 3-29 April 1923, no. 51.
An Exhibition of Paintings by Emil Carlsen, Department of Fine Arts, Carmege Institute, Pittsburgh, 25 June - 4 September 1923, no. 51.
Winter Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 17 November - 16 December 1923, no. 380.
1926
The Tenth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 4 April - 16 May 1926, no. 84.
1950
Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1950, no catalogue.
1981
Extended loan for use by Vice President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush, Vice President's House, Washington, 1981-1989.
1998
The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 July - 29 September 1998, unnumbered catalogue.
2005
Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 2005-2007, checklist no. 78.
2008
The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, unpublished checklist.
2018
Emil Carlsen's Quiet Harmonies, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings; Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia; Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London; Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, 2018-2019, pl. 19 (shown only in Billings, Huntington, and New London).
Bibliography
1973
Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 2: Painters born from 1850 to 1910. Washington, 1973: 16.
2011
McLean, Randall. "Emil Carlsen, The Picture from Thibet." In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 224-255, 280, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q46633935