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John Fabian Carlson

John Fabian Carlson (1874/75 - 1945) was active/lived in New York, Colorado / Sweden.  John Carlson is known for Landscape and snowscape painting, teaching.

Known for his Tonalist* nature paintings, especially snow scenes, in conservative style, John Carlson was one of the leading landscape painters in America in the early 20th century.  He founded the John F Carlson School of Landscape painting in Woodstock, New York, and in 1942, co-founded with Emile Gruppe a summer school in Gloucester.  He was a proponent of juxtaposing light and shadow to capture the changing moods of nature.

He spent his childhood in Kalmar-Lan, Sweden, and immigrated at age 10 with his family to Brooklyn, New York and later to Buffalo.  His father, encouraging his son's art talent, hired a private tutor, and he later attended the Buffalo Albright Art School* where his teacher was Lucius Hitchcock.  In 1902, he enrolled on a scholarship at the Art Students League* in New York City, and his teachers were Frank Vincent DuMond and Birge Harrison.  He and Harrison became very close friends, and Carlson joined his teacher at Woodstock but   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10351 characters.]  Artist bio

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