I was very impressed with your father's early drawings. Especially the wheels of the trains - or might a grown up have helped him with those..?
And the rabbit! Did he really do that one too? At that age - clearly oulining the volume or shape of the animal's body.
Hi Lasse,
As far as I know, all of the drawings on those pages were from his hand. He went on to become a rather accomplished artist.The Chicago Tribune published an article about him in the 1930s, heralding him as one of a group of very accomplished Scandinavian artists. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with a man who was a student of Cezanne and spent some time with Salvador Dali in both New york and Chicago in the 30's. i will have to shoot one of his paintings and add it to the folder. I have several that are very nice. One of his paintings that I own had been damaged in a flood in the 1950s so I took it to an art restoration facility in Detroit that does work for galleries all over the world, including the Met and the Louvre, and they recognized the style, the school, and the period. They knew right away that he was a Scandinavian painter who trained in Chicago in the thirties. I don't know how they knew that, but they did. Both his father and his grandfather were very accomplished painters as was one of his sisters. Me? I can't paint to save my ass from hell, but one of my daughters is very good. I'm very proud of my father. He was the best man I ever knew, and I miss him dearly. Thank you for looking. I hope to make it back to Sweden some time soon. There are many people there that I must see while they're still with us.
Paul
