Birger Sandzen Lithograph "Smoky Valley Farm"

Item Details

Birger Sandzen (Kansas/Colorado/Sweden, 1871 – 1954)
Smoky Valley Farm
Lithograph on paper
Signed to lower right margin

Born in Bildsberg, Sweden, Sven Sandzen’s early interest in art was encouraged by his family. His first formal art education began at the age of ten at the Skara School in Sweden and continued at the University of Lund. He went on to study under Anders Zorn at the Artist’s League of Stockholm and under Aman-Jean in Paris. He eventually emigrated to Kansas, where he had a long, distinguished career as a professor at Bethany College, becoming the head of the Art Department in 1899. Early in his career he worked in a Tonalist style, but after beginning regular painting trips to Colorado and New Mexico in 1918, his work evolved to a more impressionist style, with bold color and thick paint application akin to that of the Fauvists. Sandzen’s work resides in numerous collections and museums, including the Denver Art Museum, Brigham Young University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum the Library of Congress and many others.

Condition

- toning and light scattered foxing; waving to sheet to upper left; minor scratches and abrasions to frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; image measures 14.25" W x 9.75" H.

Item #

ITMG262221