Anders Gustaf Aldrin Original Vintage Antique Swedish American LA California Post Impressionist Fauve Oil Painting Sailboats in Harbor

Anders Aldrin, (1889-1970), was a Swedish-American immigrant who began painting at the late age of 34. He studied at Otis Art Institute with Edouard Antonin Vysekal (1890-1939), before continuing on to the Santa Barbara School of Fine Arts, and San Francisco. He worked under Frank Morley Fletcher and among contemporaries Millard Sheets (1907-1989), and Milford Zornes (b. 1908). His modernist paintings of cityscapes, portraits, and landscapes demonstrate a Fauvist impulse carried out by strong brushwork, and a distinctively vivid colored palette.  

Born in 1889 in Stjernsfors, Sweden, Aldrin grew up in a family of little means. As a youth, he showed artistic promise but was not encouraged to pursue his creative interests. At age 22, after working for 12 years to support his family, Aldrin immigrated to Chicago. Soon after, he moved to Minneapolis and joined the growing population of Swedish farmers. There, he met and married Mabel Esther Lindberg, the daughter of a Swedish Baptist minister. In 1918, he traveled to France, to serve in World War I. After a year, he contracted tuberculosis and was sent to the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Prescott, Arizona. While healing, he returned to his childhood interest in painting. This convalescence served as a turning point for Aldrin. After his recovery, he moved to Los Angeles and enrolled for study at the Otis Art Institute where he studied under Edouard Antonin Vysekal. At the relatively late age of 34, he dedicated his life's work almost entirely to painting.

From Otis, he received a scholarship and was described as “one of the best trained and most promising students.” Aldrin moved to Santa Barbara in 1927 with a scholarship to study at the Santa Barbara School of Fine Arts under Frank Morley Fletcher (a Japanese color woodblock specialist). After completing his studies at Otis, he interspersed work in oils, watercolors, and woodcuts with courses at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. In 1935, the Los Angeles Museum featured his work in his first solo exhibition.


Public Collections Include:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Chaffey Community Art Association Museum of History and Art, Ontario, CA
CPLH
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Library of Congress
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR


Cataloged paintings by Anders Aldrin:


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https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f1/4d/ba/f14dba854a5c9d96eea6c5d78e159e69.jpg


https://www.chaffeymuseum.org/Assets/SLImages/Anders_Aldrin/3-The%20Frolic%20(Oregon%20Coast).jpg


https://i.pinimg.com/236x/ec/ff/78/ecff7833f417499b8c4778ae26d52d2d.jpg

http://earlycaliforniaantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/P1184-40-175x175.jpg


http://www.sullivangoss.com/images/artist_page/1135289312381.jpeg?1495253293055


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A harbor scene, with sailboats, reflected in the water of a seascape, the brushwork and colors are quite lovely, and the palette is reflective of the artist's better, and more prominent works. Due to the lightness/lack of a clear signature on the painting, the painting is listed as an attribution to the artist (Andrew) Anders Aldrin.


Anders Aldrin
(1889-1970)
Swedish American
Oil on Canvas
Sailboats in a Harbor
California Fauve, Santa Barbara
Very good original condition
There is a very small note written on the bottom portion that is unreadable but is possibly the title of the painting. (It appears perhaps to read "Hermosa", as the last part is legible) The painting is in a vintage Plein Air frame but will need to be secured better, in the back. The frame had a small chip in the gold area and has been retouched. Painting is estimated to have been painted in approximately 1955; perhaps a bit earlier, due to the nails securing the sides to the stretcher bars. Painting is an oil on cotton duck canvas, secured to the back wooden stretcher bars, by nails.
Oil painting measures 21.5" X 27.5". The painting was acquired in the Santa Barbara area.
The painting will be packed professionally, and sent with insurance, online tracking, and signature confirmation included.

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