Artist

John F. Carlson

Portrait of John F. Carlson
Portrait of John F. Carlson

Swedish, 1875–1947

John F. Carlson was a Swedish Regionalism painter. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art. John F. Carlson was born in Sweden.

John Fabian Carlson (1875-1945) was a 20th-century Swedish-American landscape painter, teacher and author. He was known for his meditative winter scenes rendered in the tonalist tradition. He was co-founder of the Woodstock School of Landscape Painting and founder of the John Fabian Carlson School of Landscape Painting in Woodstock, NY.

In 1928 he wrote Elementary Principles of Landscape Painting which was later reissued as Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting.

Works by John F. Carlson

Collections represented

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