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.
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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
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
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
33. Eero Järnefelt
A Girl and a Dog 1910
oil on canvas 98 x 88
Private Collection
34. Pekka Halonen
Tomatoes 1916
oil on hardboard 50 x 42
The Paloheimo Foundation
35. Pekka Halonen
Tomatoes 1919
oil on cardboard 34 x 27
Nelimarkka Foundation
36. Pekka Halonen
Still Life 1913
oil on canvas 43 x 38
Halosenniemi museum
37. Eero Järnefelt
At the Sarvikallio 1911
oil on canvas 100 x 131
Private Collection
38. Part of the original "Pine Tree Worth Millions" which used to grow on the bedrock behind the house and fell during a storm.
39. Pekka Halonen
Mooring Beach 1913
oil on canvas 76 x 53
Leonora and Yrjö Paloheimo Foundation
ANNI´S ROOM (in the studio loft)
40. Antti Favén
Pine Tree Branches 1916
oil on canvas 73 x 67
Private Collection
41. Pekka Halonen
The Garden in June 1911
oil on canvas 54 x 39
Halosenniemi Museum
42. Pekka Halonen
Shore in Early Summer 1918
oil on hardboard 50 x 40
Halosenniemi Museum / deposition
43. Pekka Halonen
Children Playing 1911
oil on canvas 50 x 40
Halosenniemi Museum
44. Pekka Halonen
Shore in Spring 1921
oil on canvas 63 X 47
Pekka Halonen association
45. Pekka Halonen
Ice Melting 1916
oil on cardboard 73 x 55
Private Collection
46. Pekka Halonen
Shore in Spring 1917
oil on hardboard 75 x 55
Private Collection
47. Pekka Halonen
Birches in Winter Sun 1912
oil 75 x 58
Private Collection
48. Pekka Halonen
Homely Winter Landscape 1918
oil on canvas 49 X 40
Private Collection
49. Pekka Halonen
Winter Sunlight 1910
oil on canvas 50 x 40
Private Collection
50. Pekka Halonen
Spring 1924
oil on hardboard 51 x 43
Halosenniemi Museum
51. Pekka Halonen
Clouds over Lake Tuusula ca. 1900-1902
oil on canvas 80 x 48
Halosenniemi Museum
52. Pekka Halonen
Double Portrait 1895
oil on canvas 47 x 35
Pekka Halonen association / Halosenniemi Museum
53. Pekka Halonen,
Slope in March 1910
oil on canvas 80 x 54,5
Halosenniemi Museum / deposition
54. Pekka Halonen
Moonlight 1912
oil on canvas 50,5 x 27,5
Pekka Halonen association
55. Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Kalela on a Winter Night 1896
oil on canvas 46 x 39
Private Collection
56. Pekka Halonen
Sunset over Lake Tuusula 1902
oil on canvas 69 x 63
Halosenniemi Museum / deposition
57. Pekka Halonen
Snow Melting
oil on canvas 58 x 36
Halosenniemi Museum / deposition
58. Pekka Halonen
Halosenniemi from Southwest 1900
indian ink on paper 20 x 26
Halosenniemi museum
59. Pekka Halonen
The Mill Chute 1916
oil on canvas 71 x 51
Private Collection
60. Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Lynx Cave 1908
oil on canvas 98 x 64
Private Collection
61. Pekka Halonen
Hunter in a Winter Landscape 1893
oil on canvas 60 x 74
HAM Helsinki City Art Museum
62. Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Rapid in Winter 1893
oil on cardboard 21 x 26
Orimattila Art Museum / Collection of Toini Wall-Hakala