Fisherman's Cottage

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Modern Art

1906

Harald Sohlberg
Norwegian, 1869-1935

Status: On loan to Fondation Beyeler in Basel for Northern Lights
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Harald Oscar Sohlberg
Title: Fisherman's Cottage
Place: Norway (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1906
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 109 × 94 cm (43 × 37 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Edward Byron Smith
Reference Number: 2000.1
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Filippo Grimani, VII. Esposizione internazionale d’arte della Città di Venezia, exh. cat. (Venice: C. Ferrari, 1907), 37, cat. 42 as Casa sulla costa del mare.
Christian Brinton, Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art, exh cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), 118, cat. 155.
John E.D. Trask, Catalogue de Luxe of the Department of Fine Arts Panama-Pacific International Exposition, exh. cat. (San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company Publishers, 1915), 278, cat. 275D, as Fisherman’s Hut.
Roald Nasgaard, The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America 1890-1940, exh. cat. (Toronto: The Art Gallery of Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1984), 113, 114, fig. 74, 115 (ill.), n.p. cat. 109.
Øivind Storm Bjerke, Edvard Munch, Harald Sohlberg: Landscapes of the Mind, exh. cat. (New York: National Academy of Design, 1995), 70, 109, 118, cat. 103 as Fisherman’s Cottage, 1907, 217.
Götz Czymmek and Hans Henrik Brummer, Landschaft als Kosmos der Seele: Malerei des nordischen Symbolismus bis Munch 1880-1910 (Heidelberg: Braus, 1998), 64, fig. 5 (ill.), as Daus Haus des Fischers.
James A. Ganz, Emma Acker, Laura A. Ackley, Heidi Applegate, Gergely Barki, Karin Breuer, Melissa E Buron, Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, exh. cat. (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2015), 26, 37-38, n. 100, 365, pl. 162 (color ill.), 399.
Marianne Yvenes, ed., Harald Sohlberg: Infinite Landscapes, exh. cat. (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2018), 17, 162, fig. 97 (color ill.), 221, cat. 45, 236 (color ill.).

Venice, VII. Esposizione internazionale d’arte della Città di Venezia, Norwegian room, Apr.22, 1907–Oct. 31, 1907, cat. 42, as Casa sulla costa del mare.
New York, American Art Galleries, Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art, Dec. 10-25, 1912, cat. 155; Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Jan. 4-Jan. 26, 1913; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 25-Mar. 16, 1913; Toledo and Boston, 1913.
San Francisco, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Norwegian section, Feb. 20–Dec. 4, 1915, no. 275D, as Fisherman’s Hut.
Toronto, The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America, 1890-1940, Jan. 13–Mar. 11, 1984, cat. 109; Cincinnati Art Museum, Mar. 31- May 13, 1984.
New York, National Academy of Design, Edvard Munch/Harald Solhberg: Landscapes of the Mind, Oct. 12–Jan. 14, 1996, cat. 103.
San Francisco, de Young Museum, Jewel City: Art of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Oct. 17, 2015–Jan. 10, 2016.
Oslo, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, Harald Sohlberg: Infinite Landscapes, Sept. 27, 2018–Jan. 13, 2019; London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Feb. 13–June 2, 2019.

The artist. Byron Laflin Smith (1853-1914), Chicago, 1914 [Bjerke, 1995]; by descent within the family, to Edward Byron Smith (1909-2002), Lake Forest, IL, by 1984 [Nasgaard, 1984]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 20, 2000.

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