Portrait of Dines Carlsen. Charcoal on paper, ca. 1930, signed in the lower right, matted and framed under glass, the sight size 17-1/2" x 13-1/4", and with the linen mat and gilt frame overall 28" x 23". There is a label on the back from the Weatherspoon Annual Exhibition "Art on Paper", ca. 1978 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with the name of the lender obscured.
Emil Carlsen was born in 1853. His extensive art training was all European, starting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Copenhagen, and then the Danish Royal Academy and Academie Julian from 1884-86. Carlsen immigrated to the U.S. in 1872 and worked as an architectural assistant before teaching at the Chicago Institute of Art. In 1875, he returned to Paris for 6 months of study, and then settled in California for four years. There he became the Director of the San Francisco Art Association's California School of Design. Carlsen moved back to New York City permanently in 1891 to teach at the National Academy of Design. Carlsen's early career was marked by still lifes of yellow roses and other bright flowers. However, he gained critical recognition for rich, sensuous paintings of dead game and kitchen still lifes that made him an important figure in the Chardin revival of the 19th century. With an emphasis on subtle light and form, visual truths such as wet scales or gleaming copper became completely believable. Carlsen is recognized for his traditional representation with an Impressionistic approach to color and light. Landscape and still-life painter Dines Carlsen, son of artist Soren Emil Carlsen, was born in New York in 1901. Naturally gifted, he studied with his father, and began to exhibit in large international shows at the age of fifteen. He and his father were artist members of Grand Central Art Galleries, and in 1968, a joint exhibition honoring their work was presented. "The Emil and Dines Carlsen Award," of the National Academy of Design is named after the father-son tandem of painters.
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