Winter Landscape by Svend Svendsen Oil on Canvas - Listed Illinois Artist

Artist: Svend Svendsen 
Dimensions: 21.5" x 27.5 (with frame) 18 x 24" (canvas)
Medium:  Oil on Canvas 
Provenance: Signed by the artist lower right

Condition: Excellent, this painting has been relined and lightly restored. Comes with a period frame, not sure if this is the original, came with the painting and looks to be from the same time period, has a wonderful patina. The frame is in good condition but is missing a couple pieces of the finish/wood in the top left corner (photographed).

About the Artist:

Impressionist painter Svend R. Svendsen was born in Christiania, Norway in 1864. He studied art at the Academie Delecluse in Paris in the 1890s. Around 1894, he moved to Chicago, and he exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago's Annuals from 1895–1909, 1915 and in 1920. In 1897, he exhibited his work at the Nashville Exposition, and at the Pan American Fine Arts Exposition in Buffalo, NY in 1898 1900, 1902.

Svendsen painted both still life, as well as landscape and used oil, pastel and watercolor. In the 1920s, his work was represented by the Milch Gallery in New York City. Svend Svendsen died in 1945 in Chicago, Illinois.