Grand Forks painter preserves folk art from her ancestral homeland of Sweden Grand Forks painter Pieper Bloomquist is the essence of calm as her small hands lay down delicate black lines of paint ...

"Swedish Folk Art" exhibition at the National Collection of Fine Art, now the National Museum of American Art, in the Natural History Building. The exhibit was organized by The Nordiska Museet, ...

As a contemporary folk artist, Bloomquist’s work reflects the traditions of Swedish bonadsmålning and dalmålning (kurbits painting), the painted wall-hangings that decorated the interiors of ...

Mamma Andersson is a contemporary Swedish painter. Her work is often figurative, frequently depicting domestic interiors and snowy landscapes, and is known for its quiet, dreamlike quality, and use of ...

Only a few months before retiring as director of the Gammelgården Museum in Scandia, Lynne Blomstrand Moratzka accepted a momentous gift to the museum: a dala painting by Swedish folk-art painter ...

A Swedish museum says it was not aware that three of its paintings, including a $1.5 million (£940,000) artwork by Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch, had been stolen until police stumbled on ...

National Museum of American Art (U.S.) Natural History Building Category Historic Images of the Smithsonian Notes File contains 10 additional prints of exhibit, 12 prints of objects. Summary "Swedish ...