The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.
John F. Carlson Quotes
Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.
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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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