Artist
John F. Carlson
born Kolsebro, Sweden 1874-died New York City 1945
- Also known as
- John Fabian Carlson
- Born
- Kolsebro, Sweden
- Active in
- Woodstock, New York, United States
- Nationalities
- American
- Biography
Painter known particularly for his meditative winter scenes rendered in the tonalist tradition. Carlson 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 (1928).
Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)