Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.
John F. Carlson Quotes
Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and yet make it plain to the student that these are but the 'means' and not an end in themselves.
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| Birth: | 5th May, 1875 |
| Death: | 19th May, 1947 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Painter |
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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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