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Birth
1878 (Tulstorg, Scania, Sweden)
Death
1955 (Henderson, Texas)
Lived/Active
New Mexico/New Jersey/Kansas / Sweden
Often Known For
modernist figure, landscape, still-life, print
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Categories of Interest
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Taos Pre 1940
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| A Swedish immigrant Bror Julius Nordfeldt became one of the better known of the early 20th-century American modernist artists. He was an etcher and engraver as well as oil painter. He gained early attention for his abstract, non-academic depiction of everyday subject matter such as still lifes, portraits and figures. His treatment of Indians was startling to many as he showed them with stylistic distortion and abstraction, which conveyed an air of mystery that invited viewers to regard them as h (showing 500 of 13665 characters). |
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