Exhibition Catalogue

The Pine Tree Worth Millions – Landscape paintings by Pekka Halonen and his contemporaries

Halosenniemi Museum 3.5.–15.9.2024

From the 1890s onwards, Pekka Halonen's landscape-themed artworks featured national romantic panoramas, winter landscapes and symbolism. In the 1920s, the colourful works of the Colour Period of Finnish art (ca. 1908–16) gave way to a harmonious and serene depiction in his art. Halonen's favourite subject was often a snowy pine trees on a rock or in the middle of a forest. Children of Halonen family called one of the pine trees growing on the cliff of Halosenniemi the Million Pine Tree, because they believed that the artist had earned that much money with his pine-themed paintings. In addition to Pekka Halonen, works are exhibited by e.g. from Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Eero Järnefelt, Väinö Blomstedt and Helmi Biese.

Go to:

Downstairs

• Studio
• Guest room
• Kitchen
• Dining room

Upstairs

• Upper Hallway
• Anni's room
• Parents' bedroom
• Childern's room
• Servants' room

Downstairs:

STUDIO

1. Pekka Halonen
Landscape, Kuhmoinen 1916
oil on canvas 58 x 47
Halosenniemi museum / deposition

2. Pekka Halonen
Dog Howling at the Moon 1899
oil on canvas 26 x 17,2
Halosenniemi Museum

3. Pekka Halonen
Ice Breaking Up 1916
oil on canvas 65 x 48
Private Collection

4. Pekka Halonen
Winter Landscape 1929
oil on canvas 66,5 x 51
Private Collection

5. Akseli Gallen-Kallela
First Snow 1914
oil 54 x 54
Lähi-Tapiola

6. Pekka Halonen
Pine Tree in Snow 1928
oil on cardboard 51,5 x 39,5
Pekka Halonen association

7. Pekka Halonen
Winter Sunset 1899
oil on canvas 52 x 64,5
Private Collection

8. Pekka Halonen
Pine Tree in Snow 1909
oil on canvas 64 x 41
HAM Helsinki City Art Museum

9. Pekka Halonen
Landscape over Lake Tuusula 1916
oil on canvas 77 x 60
Private Collection

10. Pekka Halonen
First Snow 1931
oil on canvas 75 x 51
Private Collection

11. Pekka Halonen
Lake Ladoga Landscape, Haavus 1894
oil on canvas 100 x 52
Private Collection

12. Helmi Biese
Reflections 1916
oil on canvas 100 x 130
Private Collection

13. Väinö Blomstedt
Lake Landscape, Häme 1893
oil on canvas 115 x 60
Private Collection

14. Pekka Halonen
Autumn Landscape, Kuhmoinen 1928
oil on canvas 98 x 72
Pekka Halonen association / Collection of Matti and Leena Toivakka

15. Eemil Halonen
Sitting Nude
plaster
Halosenniemi museum

Over the fireplace:

16. Väinö Blomstedt
Landscape 1899
oil on canvas 83 x 138
Private Collection

17. Pekka Halonen
Winter Landscape, Pielisjärvi 1915
oil on canvas 55 x 83,5
Halosenniemi Museum

In the loft:

18. Pekka Halonen
Winter Landscape 1909
oil on canvas 74 x 92
The Finnish Cultural Foundation

GUEST ROOM

19. Pekka Halonen
Pine Trees 1909
crayon 29 x 26,5
Pekka Halonen association / Halosenniemi Museum

20. Eero Järnefelt
First Snow
colour etching 28 x 24
Järvenpää Art Museum

21. Eero Järnefelt
View from Koli 1920
etching 27 x 33,5
Järvenpää Art Museum

22. Pekka Halonen
Winter Landscape 1909
etching 19,5 x 15
Pekka Halonen association / Halosenniemi Museum

23. Eemil Halonen
Young Maiden Cutting Her Hair to String Väinämöinen’s Kantele 1901
bronze
Halosenniemi Museum / deposition

24. Eero Järnefelt
Forest 1898
oil on canvas 21 x 30
Järvenpää Art Museum

25. Pekka Halonen
Bushes and Birches 1906
oil on canvas 48 x 43
Halosenniemi Museum

KITCHEN

26. Pekka Halonen
Rowan Tree in Blossom 1915
oil on hardboard 50 x 42
Private Collection

27. Pekka Halonen
Pushcart in the Garden 1913
oil on hardboard 54 x 44
Pekka Halonen association

28. Pekka Halonen
Autumn Colours 1911
oil on canvas 54 x 40
Private Collection

29. Pekka Halonen
Rowan Tree in Blossom 1901
oil on canvas 56 x 35
Private Collection

30. Pekka Halonen
Frosty Rowan Berries 1923
oil on canvas 37 x 43
Private Collection

31. Pekka Halonen
Autumn Colors 1916
oil on canvas 59 x 47
Pekka Halonen association / Halosenniemi Museum

32. Pekka Halonen
Rowan Tree in Blossom 1915
oil on canvas 82 x 64
Pekka Halonen association / Halosenniemi Museum

DINING ROOM