Ebba Carstensen becomes a well-respected artist during contemporary times and participates in many exhibitions. Throughout her lifetime, she receives many accolades in the form of large grants, being the first female member of the Decembrists and sitting on the Academic Council. After her death in 1967, the references to her work dry up, and she does not achieve the same degree of attention as, for example, her old schoolmates Jais Nielsen and Olaf Rude – or other members of the Decembrists.

Ebba Carstensen's artistic work runs along two paths; in the winter she paints motifs from her studio in Copenhagen, while in the summer she moves to Horneby in Northern Zealand. Here she paints under the open sky – cows, field hands, forest landscapes and harvest motifs. In the painting here, the harvest is over, and the wheat lies golden in the field. The deep warm orange-brown wheat stooks are played off against the lighter white-yellow brush strokes, while the sky almost seems fluorescent in a sea of blue shades from turquoise to azure. The strokes are wide and angular, whereby the figurative reaches for the abstract.

Carstensen is represented at a number of art museums such as the National Gallery of Denmark, ARoS, Skive Art Museum, Vejle Art Museum, Esbjerg Art Museum and more. She receives the Eckersberg Medal and the Thorvaldsen Medal.