Carl Wilhelmson
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Sketch for "Kyrkfolk i båt"
Executed 1908-1909. Oil and pencil on papper 65 x 43 cm. Verso a sketch of horses and carts.
Provenance
According to information given, acquired from the artist's sister in Fiskebäckskil around 1940.
Thence by descent in the family.
More information
'Kyrkfolk i båt' from 1909 by Carl Wilhelmson was acquired in 1914 by the National Museum in Stockholm (NM 1796).
The large painting 'Kyrkfolk i båt' at the Nationalmuseum shows rowing boats setting out from the church grounds in Fiskebäckskil to bring the church people over to the village after the Sunday service. Wilhelmson drew his motifs mainly from his own region in Bohuslän. His luminous images depict the barren rocky landscape of Bohuslän and the striving fishermen with seriousness and dignity. In Namn & Nytt in the newspaper Dagens Nyheter from 8 January 1990 there is an interview with Signe Jacobsson from Grundsund, one of the children portrayed in the painting - "...it is my sister Cecilia and I who are in the painting. I was nine and my sister five. We were his (the artist's) neighbours as were most of the people in the painting...my sister is sitting on the lap of Emilia Edman, who is wearing the beautiful home-woven shawl. The shawl is preserved at the local museum on Skaftö."