Exhibition Catalogue

Life in an Artist’s Home

Halosenniemi Museum 24.9.2024–21.4.2025

The exhibition features artworks by Pekka Halonen (1865–1933) as well as objects that belonged to him and his family. Everyday life and celebrations are present in the displayed objects. The nearby landscape, family members and cosy home interiors are all featured in Halonen’s art. Included in the exhibition are many rarely seen works from private collections.

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Downstairs

Upstairs

Downstairs:

STUDIO

1. Garden in Summer 1912
oil on canvas 43 x 47
Private Collection

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

3. Double Portrait
1895
oil on canvas 48,5 x 36
Pekka Halonen Society

4. Children Reading
1915
oil on canvas 48 x 63
Private Collection

5. Graduation Celebration
sketch for a mural
1910’s
oil on hardboard 60 x 43
Private Collection

6. Reading Boy (Yrjö)
1908
oil on hardboard
42,5 x 65,5
Halosenniemi Museum

7. Eric O. W. Ehrström
Glass Carafe 1925
Pekka Halonen’s artist friends gifted him this engraved carafe for his 60th birthday
Private Collection

8. Wooden case made by Pekka Halonen
Private Collection

9. Playing Woman
(Maija playing piano) 1907
oil on canvas 49 x 37
Halosenniemi Museum

10. Pine Tree in Snow
1928
oil on hardboard
51,5 x 39,5
Pekka Halonen Society

11. Melting Ice by the Sauna Shore
1916
oil on canvas 66 x 52,5
Pekka Halonen Society

12. Rinsing the Laundry
1906
oil on canvas 60 x 50
Tradeka

13. Writing a Letter
1910’s
oil on canvas 81 x 62
HOK-Elanto

14. Girl Sitting on a Rock
1913
oil on canvas 100 x 80
Private Collection

15. Children on Shore 1914
oil on canvas 129,5 x 90
Halosenniemi Museum, deposition

16. Hunter
1913
oil on canvas 97 x 75
Halosenniemi Museum

17. Snow-covered Slope (sketch)
1900
aquarelle 97 x 109
Pekka Halonen Society

18. Girls on a Trip
1927
oil on canvas 102 x 81
Halosenniemi Museum,
deposition

In the studio loft:

19. Winter Landscape, Pielisjärvi
1915
oil on canvas 55 x 83,5
Halosenniemi Museum

GUEST ROOM

20. Heikki playing
(the Artist's Brother)
1908
lithography 42 x 38
Pekka Halonen Society

21. By the Piano, Väinö Mäkinen (brother of Maija Halonen)
1905
oil on canvas 60 x 40
Halosenniemi Museum

22. Maija Reading
1896
water colour 17 x 12,7
Pekka Halonen Society

23. Kantele Player
1892
indian ink 21 x 18
Halosenniemi Museum

24. Anni
1918
monotype 32 X 25
Pekka Halonen Society

25. Woman in Jääski Folk Costume
ca. 1905
oil on canvas 49 x 41
Halosenniemi Museum

KITCHEN

26. Snowy Trees
1923
oil on canvas 71 x 50,5
Halosenniemi Museum

27. Rime Ice
1928
oil on canvas 68 x 49
Private Collection

28. Misty Winter Landscape
1926
oil on canvas 58 x 45
Halosenniemi Museum

29. Winter Day
in a Forest
1923
oil on canvas 60 x 40
Pekka Halonen Society

30. Outside the Studio 1920
oil on hardboard 50 x 42
Pekka Halonen Society

31 Spring Ice on
Lake Tuusula
1927
oil on canvas 55 x 47
Pekka Halonen Society

DINING ROOM

32. Cyclamen
1918
oil on hardboard 46 x 39
Private Collection

33. Flowers in a Vase
1918
oil on canvas 25 x 22
Halosenniemi Museum, deposition

34. Still Life
1913
oil on canvas 43 x 38
Halosenniemi Museum

35. Mooring Beach
1913
oil on canvas 76,5 x 53
Halosenniemi Museum, deposition / Leonora and Yrjö Paloheimo Foundation

36. Autumn Colors
1916
oil on canvas 59 x 47
Pekka Halonen Society

37. Pushcart in the Garden
1913
oil on hardboard 54 x 44
Pekka Halonen Society

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


Upstairs:

ANNI´S ROOM (in the studio loft)

39. Girls in a Boat
1932
oil on canvas 75 x 63
Halosenniemi Museum, deposition

40. Young Man
1928
oil on canvas 54 x 40
Halosenniemi Museum

41. Marja
ca. 1920s
oil on canvas 46,5 x 34,5
Halosenniemi Museum

42. Elina
ca. 1920’s
oil on canvas 61 x 46
Halosenniemi Museum

43. Anni
1918
monotype 31 x 24
Pekka Halonen Society

UPPER HALLWAY

44. The Sledge Rider
1899
gouache 25 x 33
Pekka Halonen Society

45. Slope in March
1910
oil on canvas 80 x 54,5
Halosenniemi Museum, deposition

PARENTS' BEDROOM

46. Adoration of the Magi
1899
oil on canvas 75 x 47
Halosenniemi Museum

47. Christ Preaching from the Boat (sketch)
1905
oil on canvas 110 x 68,5
Pekka Halonen Society

48. Shore in Spring
1921
oil on canvas 54,5 x 46,5
Pekka Halonen Society

49. Melting Snow
ca. 1909
oil on canvas 61 x 39
Halosenniemi Museum,
deposition

50. Shore in Early Summer
1918
öljy levylle 50 x 40
Halosenniemi Museum,
deposition

51. Landscape, Kuhmoinen
1916
oil on canvas 58 x 47
Halosenniemi Museum,
deposition

52. Self-portrait
1890’s
oil on canvas 87 x 58
Halosenniemi Museum

53. Mother and Yrjö
1896
oil on canvas 48 x 35
Pekka Halonen Society

CHILDREN’S ROOM

54. Young Girl
1910’s
monotype 30 x 27
Halosenniemi Museum

55. Reading Boy
ca. 1917
monotype 32 x 23,5
Halosenniemi Museum

56. Maija is Ill
1909
soft-ground etching
16 x 18,5
Pekka Halonen Society

57. Girl Playing Piano
(Anni Playing)
1909
etching 30 x 25
Halosenniemi Museum
deposition

58. Crofter Girl
1905
oil on canvas 60 x 55
Halosenniemi Museum

59. In the Sauna
1925
oil on canvas 82 x 60
Private Collection

60. Sick Boy
ca. 1909
oil on cardboard 21 x 20
Halosenniemi Museum

61. By the Evening Light
1911
water colour 34 x 27
Pekka Halonen Society

62. Children Playing 1911
oil on canvas 42 x 37
Halosenniemi Museum

SERVANT'S ROOM

63. Sewing Girl
1922
oil on canvas 66 x 51
Halosenniemi Museum

64. Kantele Player and a Girl
1895
oil on canvas 65 x 90
Pekka Halonen Society

65. Moonlight
1912
oil on canvas 50,5 x 27,5
Pekka Halonen Society

On the screen: Photographs of Pekka Halonen’s paintings and everyday life of the Halonen family
(duration 5min 40s)

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