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About Alfred Jansson
Alfred Jansson (1863-1931) began his professional career in his native Sweden. He arrived in the United States in 1889 to carry out a mural commission for the Swedish Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Immediately, he became active in Chicago’s art scene, joining the Palette and Chisel Club and other organizations. His delicate, moody landscapes reveal the many facets of nature’s wonders, from snow scenes, to richly ornamented autumn forests and the drifting clouds and sunsets of summer. Jansson exhibited in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, then showed his works regularly at the Art Institute of Chicago’s annual exhibitions (1898-1925).
Hillside View is a brilliant example of how the impressionists were able to achieve a unified shimmering texture over the entire surface of a canvas. As in Kathryn Cherry’s landscape (cat. no. 7), the essentially empty field becomes an area where the artist’s brush may run uninhibited in the creation of painterly abstraction. Purple shadows in the immediate foreground indicate trees "behind" the viewer. |
Paintings by Alfred Jansson
| Hillside View |
| oil on canvas: 29 x 36 inches |
| signed and dated 1916: lower right |
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