Soren Emil Carlsen Original Vintage Antique Impressionist Landscape Genre Peasants Field Branchville Art Colony Danish American Oil Painting
Original, antique Danish-American landscape genre scene, with workers/peasants collecting hay, in the fields, by Soren Emil Carlsen. Wonderful detail, with a beautiful light shining through a moody sky, over a highly detailed impressionistic landscape; the qualities contained in better paintings, by the artist.
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Ref: http://www.npshistory.com/publications/wefa/an-artists-retreat-hrs.pdf
"Branchville, the Art Colony, and New Directions in Art, 1893-1900"
”142 Larkin detailed Paul Remy’s service, much of his evidence based on letters between Julian and his brother John in the 1890s:
From all accounts, Paul was a hard worker - ‘always at work,’ John noted. He was a skilled traditional plowman, working with the farm’s ‘two mighty oxen, who upturn huge boulders in the furrow.’ It was noted at various times that he brought in the hay, made haystacks in early August, cut oats, cleared a field for sowing winter rye, and dealt with wet corn overheating in the barn from spontaneous combustion. He at times corresponded with JAW about the work of the farm; of course, these missing letters would greatly have illuminated the details of farm operations."
pg. 69
"Of course, at Branchville, Weir also had a somewhat different goal than that of other artist retreats or colonies. There, he created the environment of a traditional farm. Hay was the most important crop, followed by corn."
pg 98
Soren Emil Carlsen
(1853 – 1932)
Danish American
Realism, tonalism, modernism, impressionism
Oil on Canvas
16" X 20", plus frame
Signed lower right
Landscape genre with workers, bales of hay with horses
Peasants in the fields
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The painting's subject/location is possibly the fields from Julian Alden Weir's Connecticut farm, where one of the primary crops, was hay, for the farm, which was also used as an artist's retreat. (Emil Carlsen spent some time at the Weir farm, at this time- also known as Branchville, the Art Colony; (see above biographical references/online links)
The estimated age is approximately 1930, or a bit earlier. Canvas retains the original old nails, along the side, attaching the canvas to the wooden stretcher bars. Later, staples were added, and it appears the canvas may have been relined, mid-century. (there is an old label, on the reverse, from a California framer/restorer)
No overpaints or restorations are evidenced, under blacklight.
The painting is in the original vintage antique frame, which appears to have, at one point in time, been re-painted. There is a small chip. Please review all images.
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