TitleThe Wild Swan
Artist
Soren Emil Carlsen
(American, 1853 - 1932)
Date1902
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 48 1/4 × 58 in.
Framed: 54 1/4 × 64 × 3 3/8 in.
SignedSigned at lower left: "Emil. Carlsen. / 1902 -".
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, November 5, 1906
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number194-P
Label Text"The Wild Swan" is one of several, generally smaller, still lifes Carlsen executed on the theme of a swan or goose and a copper pot. The thinly painted canvas includes many features typical of his still life compositions: a commonplace metallic kitchen pot, something that hypothetically, at least, is the raw material of a meal, an unspecified background with an ambiguous juncture of horizontal and vertical planes, and a dull, silvery tonality which creates the impression of illumination by moonlight.
