Biography from AskART:
| Swedish born, Andrew Bjurman settled in Los Angeles in the early 1920s and, self taught, established a reputation for portrait sculpture, especially Indian subjects. He was also a craftsman and an art teacher in the 20s at Franklin High School.
Bjurman died during surgery in Los Angeles on May 17, 1943.
Exhibition venues include: Panama-California Expo (San Diego), 1915 (bronze medal); San Francisco Art Association,1916-19; California Art Club, 1916-37; California Liberty Fair, 1918 (2nd
prize); Sculptors Guild (LA), 1922; Southwest Museum (LA), 1923
(popular prize); County Fair (LA), 1924; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1924, 1927; Pacific
Southwest Expo (Long Beach), 1928 (gold medal); Architects Building (LA),
1929; Scandanavian-American Art Society (LA), 1940; Ebell Club (LA),
1940.
His work is in the John Morton Memorial Museum in Philadelphia.
Sources:
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940
Peggy and Harold Samuels, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
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