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Wood Interior

c. 1910

Emil Carlsen

(American, born Denmark, 1848–1932)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Unframed: 114 x 99 cm (44 7/8 x 39 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection 1926.488
Public Domain
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Location
208 American Gilded Age and Realism
Print
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Did You Know?

Carlsen’s son Dines also became a professional artist, and the two exhibited together several times.

Description

Through luminescent color, filtered light, and a subtle evocation of atmosphere, Carlsen created a quiet, meditative mood in Wood Interior. The delicate trees, trickling brook, and soft bed of the forest floor invite a tranquil retreat from bustling city life. The painting’s lighter palette is complemented by its custom-made gilded frame, which is crafted in muted 16-karat gold rather than the standard, more vibrant 18-karat.
A vertically oriented oil painting with soft, blended brushwork depicts a forest interior with slender, pale tree trunks rising from tan, leaf-covered ground. The forest floor slopes toward a thin, pale stream in the center foreground. Light green moss clings to the base of the trunks, and a hazy canopy of light green and blue fills the upper background. A signature appears in the bottom right corner.

Wood Interior

c. 1910

Emil Carlsen

(American, born Denmark, 1848–1932)
America

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