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The Scandinavian Folk Festival, in its 22st year, will pay special tribute to the artists and artisans of Scandinavian origin ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Elgin plans to hire folk artist Eric Dowdle to do a painting of the city, which will be turned into a puzzle and part of America's 250th anniversary celebration.
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 ...
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 ...
The paintings represent a fusion of folk art with the styles favoured by the landed gentry of the time, including Baroque and Rococo. Decorated by painters, ... In a comparatively small area of ...
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 ...