Soren-Emil Carlsen
Still Life: Brass Bowl, Ducks, Bottles1883

Not on view

Oil painting still life with dead white-feathered birds, a large burnished brass basin, dark glass bottles, stacked pewter plates, and a small amber-filled decanter on a tabletop, painted in warm browns and blacks

Close-up infrared or grayscale photograph of an oil painting's lower section, showing two round fruits on a wooden ledge beside leafy foliage, with a painted signature inscription reading 'J.D. Heem fA 1693' along the ledge.

Black and white detail photograph of a painting's lower section, showing a painted signature reading 'D.TENIERS' inscribed in the ground area, with visible cracking and aged surface texture.

Artist or Maker: Soren-Emil Carlsen
Title: Still Life: Brass Bowl, Ducks, Bottles
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1883
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 37 11/16 x 50 1/16 in. (95.73 x 127.16 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr.
Accession Number: M.76.67.1
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: American Art
Curatorial Notes: In 1883 Carlsen exhibited for the first time at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. At this point he was still a rising young artist, but definitely a successful one. Although it is a still life of game, which were common among Carlsen’s mature work, the museum’s picture was painted before the artist developed his characteristic style during the coming half, decade. The painting’s strong contrasts, rich chiaroscuro, and bold brushwork mark it as an early work, unlike the softly atmospheric, smoothly painted still-life canvases of his mature style. Nevertheless, it is a masterful painting, executed with economy and finesse. In its strongly asymmetrical arrangement and clear sense of pictorial geometry it reveals the essential qualities of Carlsen’s approach to, still life.
Provenance: (Sale, Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, New York, American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, March 1967, no. 66, repro., P. 29) § Joseph D. Schwerin, New York and Newport, R.I., 1967-75 § Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., Los Angeles, 1975-76.
(Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, “American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture,” 16 March 1967, lot 66, sold to); Joseph Douglas Schwerin (1938–2014), New York and Newport, Rhode Island, sold 1975 to; Jo Ann (b. 1929) and Julian Ganz, Jr. (b. 1929), Los Angeles, gifted 1976 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick. American Art: a Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.
Gerdts, William H., and Russell Burke. American Still-life Painting. New York: Praeger, 1971.

Soren-Emil Carlsen
Still Life: Brass Bowl, Ducks, Bottles1883

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Soren-Emil Carlsen
Title: Still Life: Brass Bowl, Ducks, Bottles
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1883
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 37 11/16 x 50 1/16 in. (95.73 x 127.16 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr.
Accession Number: M.76.67.1
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: American Art
Curatorial Notes: In 1883 Carlsen exhibited for the first time at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. At this point he was still a rising young artist, but definitely a successful one. Although it is a still life of game, which were common among Carlsen’s mature work, the museum’s picture was painted before the artist developed his characteristic style during the coming half, decade. The painting’s strong contrasts, rich chiaroscuro, and bold brushwork mark it as an early work, unlike the softly atmospheric, smoothly painted still-life canvases of his mature style. Nevertheless, it is a masterful painting, executed with economy and finesse. In its strongly asymmetrical arrangement and clear sense of pictorial geometry it reveals the essential qualities of Carlsen’s approach to, still life.
Provenance: (Sale, Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, New York, American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, March 1967, no. 66, repro., P. 29) § Joseph D. Schwerin, New York and Newport, R.I., 1967-75 § Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., Los Angeles, 1975-76.
(Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, “American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture,” 16 March 1967, lot 66, sold to); Joseph Douglas Schwerin (1938–2014), New York and Newport, Rhode Island, sold 1975 to; Jo Ann (b. 1929) and Julian Ganz, Jr. (b. 1929), Los Angeles, gifted 1976 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick. American Art: a Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.
Gerdts, William H., and Russell Burke. American Still-life Painting. New York: Praeger, 1971.