Ahrens, Carl

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Ahrens, Carl (1862- 1936), a Canadian landscape painter, born in Ontario, of Dutch/Scottish descent. He studied art under William Chase, Edwin Elwell and George Inness of New York. His The Day Is Done was favorably noticed in 1890, The Fisherman's Child had the place of honor in an exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1893, and his Ripe Corn Time was purchased by the government and placed in the Parliament Buildings, Toronto, in 1896. Attracted by this same picture, Elbert Hubbard persuaded the artist to join his lot with the Roycroft community in East Aurora, N. Y. Later Ahrens painted the ruined missions of southern California for three years, returning to Canada in 1907. Besides those works above mentioned, he is known for his Cradled in the Net, which he showed at the World's Fair in Chicago, The House in the Clearing, Gleam in the Woodlands, The Woodcutters, The Coming Storm, Passing Showers and The Glow in the Woodland.