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Birth
1879 (Stockholm, Sweden)
Death
1934 (Grand Canyon, Arizona)
Lived/Active
California/Arizona
Often Known For
national park landscape painting, illustration
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Painters of Grand Canyon
Taos Pre 1940
Western Painters
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Born and trained in Stockholm, Sweden, Gunnar Widforss became a famous painter specializing in American National Park landscapes.
He had art training in Sweden where he studied mural painting at the Institute of Technology from 1896 to 1900. From 1905 to 1908, he toured the United States, and returning to Sweden until 1921, had a popular audience for his work including European royalty.
In 1921, he settled for a time in San Francisco and did much painting along the coast of Monte (showing 500 of 7815 characters). |
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