Emil Carlsen (1853-1932)
Night, Old Windham, 1904
Oil on canvas, 50 1/2 x 40”
Signed and dated lower right

A superb still-life painter, Danish-born Carlsen became a landscapist as well when he began summering in Connecticut in 1896. At first he stayed at artist J. Alden Weir’s place in Windham Center, in the east. From 1905, he had his own home in Falls Village, in the northwest.

The cottage depicted here is probably the one that Weir lent the Carlsen family for several summers. Connecticut Impressionists often painted moonlight views. Childe Hassam gave continuing rain as one reason. Night scenes were, of course, done indoors.