TitleThe Sideboard
Artist
Dines Carlsen
(American, 1901 - 1966)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 26 1/2 × 36 in.
Framed: 34 15/16 × 44 1/8 × 1 7/8 in.
SignedSigned lower left: "Dines Carlsen"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, May 1941
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, Gift of Dines Carlsen, 1941
Object number193-P
Label TextDines Carlsen, the only child of the painter Soren Emil Carlsen, was educated at home by his parents, his mother providing his general education and his father his artistic training. In childhood and youth, he was also his father's frequent subject. He first exhibited in a National Academy annual in 1915 and continued to be a regular exhibitor, receiving the Julius Hallgarten Prize in 1919 and 1923. He also showed regularly in the annual exhibitions of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and in other major juried exhibitions nationwide.
Like his father, Dines Carlsen made a specialty of painting still lifes. His arrangements often featured pewter, silver, or bronze household items. However, he also painted flowers and landscape views of the Southwest. Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, presented exhibitions of his work in 1946, 1950, and 1954 and a memorial retrospective of work by Emil and Dines Carlsen in 1968.
Carlsen's initial presentation in fulfillment of the National Academician election requirement was "Bronze Bowl," which the Council accepted on May 6, 1941, but apparently not without reservations because of its large size. The artist solved the problem quickly: in a letter of May 12, 1941, he assured the Council that he was glad to comply with its suggestion and that "The Sideboard" was on its way.
