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In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.
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Birth: | 5th May, 1875 |
Death: | 19th May, 1947 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Painter |
John F. Carlson was born in Sweden. He was a Swedish-born American Impressionist painter. He attended evening art classes at the Art Students League of Buffalo, New York. He won a scholarship in 1903 or 1904 to study with Lovell Birge Harrison at the Byrdcliffe Colony in Woodstock, New York. He also painted landscapes of the Far West and the Canadian Rockies, founded the John F. Carlson School of Landscape Painting in Woodstock, N.Y., and authored Elementary Principles of Landscape Painting.
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