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    • The Bethany Artist & the Bethany Scientist: Lydia & Emil >
      • ​"First Swedish Agricultural Company" Lindsborg Founders, 1868 >
        • Swedish Pastor Olof Olsson Immigrating to Lindsborg 1869, June 27th Arrival >
          • Church and Lindsborg Founder Pastor Olsson, 1869 - 1876 >
            • ​"He Gave God Glory" The Story of Olof Olsson, ​1841 - 1900
      • Their "Bethany Lutheran Church" 1869 >
        • Their "Augustana Lutheran Synod," 1860 - 1962 >
          • The Augustana Heritage Association, 2000 - 2016
        • Their "Augustana Women's Missionary Society," 1892
      • Their "Bethany Lutheran Home" Since 1907
      • Their Lindsborg's "First" Swedish Smoky Valley Community Chronicle 1909 and Their "Second" 1919 >
        • "Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas," 1965 >
          • "The Smoky Valley in The After Years," 1969
      • Their 1920s Coronado Heights Photographs and their Smoky Valley Historical Association (SVHA)
      • Their 1936 1873 Swedish Homestead, "The Old Deere Farm," The Peter J. Larson Farm, etc. >
        • Their 1873 Swede House
        • A Smoky Valley Swedish Virtual Memorial - ​"Dedicated to the Memory of the Smoky Valley Swedish Settlements" >
          • Recognizing & Thanking >
            • - Claude Koehn -- The Before and After
      • Their 1940 Deere Home >
        • Emil's and Nina's 1961 Thunderbird
      • 1943, After Lydia--The Building of the Lindsborg Hospital
    • Their Bethany College Handel's "Messiah" Performances, 1882 on... >
      • "Messiah" Performers, Venues & Audiences, Press and Broadcasts
    • Their Bethany College 1899 Swedish Artists' Midwest Art Exhibition
    • Their Bethany College 1902 "Terrible Swedes," Coach Bennie Owen, Their 1903 "Rockar Stockar"
    • Their Bethany College 1904 St. Louis World's Fair Swedish Pavilion
    • Their Bethany College Anniversary Celebrations: 15, 20, 25, 100 years >
      • Their Celebrating 15 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1896. The First Bethany Annual, 1895-96
      • Their Celebrating 20 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1901. The "Forget-Me-Not," 1902 >
        • The King of Sweden's Emissary, 1901
        • Yale University's Bethany Club
      • Their Celebrating 25 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1906, "Souvenir of Lindsborg and Bethany College"
      • Their Celebrating 100 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1981, "The Centennial of Bethany College"
    • Their "I WAS THERE" Coin ~ Bethany College Celebration, 1902
    • Their Bethany College's 1937 Introduction to New Sweden, founded in 1638 >
      • Deere's Introduction to New Sweden
    • Their friend, Emory Lindquist, and his 1975 "Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college" >
      • Their friend, Emory Lindquist, and his 1953, "Smoky Valley People, A History of Lindsborg, Kansas"
    • Their friend, Leon Lungstrom, and his 1990 "History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
  • Swedish Immigration Story, 1854
    • "The Story of the Old Spoon" by Ingrid Anderson Sohlberg & Daughter Lydia Sohlberg Deere, 1937
    • Who They Left Behind
    • From Sweden with Love Collections >
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Portraits, 1867 >
        • The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Glass
        • The Swedish Sohlberg Letters
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Royal Gold Thread Embroidery Sampler (c1890s)
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Post Cards (c1890s)
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Magazines, (c1940s)
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Books, 1819/1886 to 1899
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Albums, late 19th early 20th centuries
      • The Swedish Deere Coins -- 1801-1929
    • Lydia Sohlberg Deere's 1927 "Lindsborg Swedish Club's" Handwork >
      • Lydia's Signatured Black Book of Her Handwritten Sewing Instructions >
        • Nina Sohlberg's Child's Sewing "Little Dots" PICTURE BOOK >
          • The Lindsborg Swedish Club's "Allers Monster-Tidnings" magazine, 1940
  • Artist Lydia Sohlberg Deere
    • Lydia's Lindsborg Photography, 1900-1925 >
      • The Hats
      • The Smoky River
      • The Smoky Hill Bluffs
      • Coronado Heights -- One Winter's Day
      • In and Around Lindsborg
      • Sohlberg House with Parents >
        • Our Sohlberg Home and Neighbor Alma Luise Olson
      • Sohlberg House with Emil 1916 to 1920 >
        • Lydia's Travels with Deere 1916 - 1930s >
          • Lydia's California Photographs for Painting
          • Lydia's Palm Springs Pictorial Magazine, 1938-1939
          • Lydia's California Pressed Wild Flowers, c1930
      • "LYDIA'S WORLD" Photography Exhibitions in Lindsborg, 2005 - 2011
    • Lydia's Art, 1919-1938 >
      • Lydia's Art: The Kansas Collection >
        • The Sketches
      • Lydia's Art: The Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico Collection >
        • The Sketches
      • Lydia's Art: The California Collection >
        • The Sketches
    • Lydia's Art Professor Sven Birger Sandzén, 1871-1954 >
      • Lydia's Assignments for Professor Sandzén >
        • Students of Sandzén 2019 Exhibition
        • Bethany Home ~ Celebrating Artist Birger Sandzén through His Students' Paintings
    • Lydia's Art Professor Birger Sandzén's "Art Exhibitions" ... 1893-1940 >
      • Lydia's Art Professor Sandzén's Exhibition at the Babcock Gallery in New York, 1922
    • Lydia's Sandzén's Body of Work Reviewed by N.Y.C, 1984 "American Impressionism," author William H. Gerdts
    • Lydia's and Sandzén's Swedish Artist Friend Charles Edward Hallberg, 1855-1940
    • Lydia's and Sandzén's Swedish Artist Friend Oscar Brousse Jacobson, 1882-1966
    • Lydia’s Sohlberg Family Connection to Sandzén, 1880-1894-1993
  • Scientist Emil O. Deere
    • Deere's & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Photography, 1906-1925 >
      • Bethany College "Campus from Above"
      • Bethany College "The Gateway" 1917 and "Bethany Campus Association" 1912
      • Bethany College "College Street," today's "North First Street"
      • Bethany College "Campus Life"
      • "Bethany College's Earliest Buildings" >
        • Bethany College "​Ladies Dormitory" / "Lane Hart Hall" 1883 - 1899 - 1983
        • Bethany College "Old Main" 1887-1968 >
          • Lydia's and Emil's Old Main Apartments, 1920 to 1940
          • Deere's Bethany College Classes in Old Main
        • Bethany College "Messiah Auditorium" / "Ling Auditorium" / "Ling Gymnasium" 1895 - 1946
        • Bethany College "Swedish Pavilion" 1904
        • Bethany College "​Carnegie Library" / "Bethany Library" 1908 - 1980
        • Bethany College "​Bethany Academy" 1882 -- Swensson's Bethany's Beginnings
    • Deere's 1959 Interview on Rev. Dr. Carl A. Swensson (On YouTube) >
      • Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1857-1904 >
        • Swensson's "Bethany Lutheran Church" and the "Augustana Lutheran Synod"
        • Swensson's Bethany's Beginnings: "The Bethany Academy of 1882"
        • Swensson's Musicians' and Singers' "Messiah", 1882 on ... >
          • Thure Olof Jaderborg
        • Swensson's Swedish Artists of the 1890s
        • Swensson's "Bethany College Museum," 1882 - 1966
      • In Memorium**Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1904
    • Deere's Rev. Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1873-1943 >
      • In Memoriam**Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1943
      • Rev. Dr. Pihlblad on Bethany College, 1904 - 1941
    • Deere's Swensson's "Bethany College Museum" 1882 - 1966 >
      • Bethany College Museum Collections' New Location,1966 >
        • Articles on the Bethany College Museum Collections Move of 1966
    • Deere's Bethany College Field Trips -- Lydia's Photography, 1906-1925 >
      • Deere's Swensson's Bethany College Museum Collections >
        • Cliff Dwellers' Pottery Collection
        • Fossils Collection, "The Find"
        • Taxidermy Collection
    • Deere's Dr. Leon Lungstrom on the "Bethany College Museum"
    • Deere's Dr. Leon Lungstrom on "Three Pioneer Scientists of Swedish Descent"
    • Deere's Smithsonian Institution's Souvenir, 1904
    • Deere's 1940 Presidential Address to the Kansas Academy of Science
    • Deere's 1955 Letter to President Eisenhower re Tuttle Creek
    • Deere's Service, 1901-1966 >
      • Deere's Education & Degrees
  • "The Other Swedes"
    • Honoring them and their works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \\/ >
      • Mrs. Alma Christina Lind Swensson ~ Remembering her as Mrs. Rev. Dr. Swensson, the First Lady of Lindsborg
      • Swedish Pioneer Photographer B.G. Gröndal ~ Remembering him for visually recording the history of Lindsborg and Bethany College
      • Miss Alma Luise Olson ~ Remembering her as Sweden remembers her as "First Honored American Woman by Sweden," and more
      • Swedish Pioneer Artist Birger Sandzén ~ Remembering him for "sharing his art with the world," starting "first" at Lindsborg's Bethany College
      • Dr. & Dr. Mrs. Charles Greenough III ~ Remembering them for their gift of the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery
      • American Artist Lester Raymer ~ Remembering him as the renown virtuoso artist and "behind the scenes" community supporter
      • Dr. Arvin W. Hahn ​​~ Remembering him for saving Bethany College from going under!​ >
        • Dr. Arvin W. Hahn (1923-2017) ~ Remembering him handing me my Bethany College Diploma on Sunday, May 26,1968
      • Dr. ​Elmer Copley ~ Remembering Bethany College's Oratorio Society Conductor who carried on "that" "Messiah" traditional excellence for 26 years, taking it to new levels >
        • Dr. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering him as the “Messiah” conductor for the Bethany College "Swedish King’s" performance, 1976 >
          • Dr. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering him as the "Messiah" conductor for the Bethany College "Centennial Celebration” performance, 1981
      • Ms. Rebecca Copley ~ Honoring her as Bethany College's “first” graduate to become an International Opera Singer
      • Mr. Bruce Karstadt ~ Honoring him as Bethany College's "first" graduate to head a major national Swedish American institution
      • Dr. Greta Swenson and Mr. & Mrs. Mark Esping ~ Honoring them for founding Lindsborg's “first” "Swedish-American Folklife Institute of Central Kansas." 1986 >
        • Recognizing their Folklife Institute's "Swedish-American Heritage Center," 1996
      • Dr. William Holwerda ( MD) ~ Remembering him at the founder of "Svensk Hyllningsfest"
      • Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg ~ Remembering her as the founder of the "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers"
      • Mr. & Mrs. Hilding Jaderborg ~ Remembering them and their “Swedish Crafts Shop” – 65 years and 50 trips to Sweden
      • The Swedish Lindsborg Builders
    • The Smoky Valley Writers on "The Other Swedes" ​ ~ Their Swedish American Legacy Collection >
      • Mr. Bror Carlsson and Mr. Alf Brorson from Sweden ~ Chronicling Founder Pastor Olof Olsson's missionary journey to Lindsborg from Värmland, Sweden
      • Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson ~ An author of countless Swedish & English publications, newspapers, articles and books ...
      • Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy ~ Providing the only known history on Lindsborg and Bethany College's earliest Swedish photographer, B.G. Gröndal
      • Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin ​~ Compiling foundational Swedish Smoky Valley Augustana Lutheran settlements' histories and more
      • Dr. Emory Lindquist ~ Chronicling Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College
      • Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg [Selma Lind] ​ ~ Chronicling the Lindsborg of her day, its early histories, and more
      • Dr. Leon Lungstrom ~ Chronicling college professors and providing the "only known written" account on the Bethany College Museum
      • Ms. Karen A. Humphrey ~ Chronicling highlights of Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College society and culture in the earliest years
      • Mr. A. John Pearson & Mr. Kenneth Sjogren ~ Chronicling the Bethany College Presidents
      • Mr. Bill Carlson ~ Chronicling Lindsborg's earliest and later histories with a personal connection
      • Mr. Chris Abercrombie ~ Remembering him as the "historian," the SVHA president and his body of work
      • Mr. Thomas N. Holmquist ~ Chronicling key Swedish Augustana Lutheran Smoky Valley settlements other than Lindsborg
      • Rev. Eugene K. Nelson and the Bethany Home Writers ~ Chronicling the "only known written" story on the beginnings of Bethany Home
      • Smoky Valley Historical Association Members ~ Researchers, compilers and writers of " Where Did They Live? "
    • ​Smoky Valley History Research Writers Website Designers ~ Their Swedish American Legacy Websites
    • Bethany College Swedish Knights and Honored Ladies ~ Their Swedish Royal Legacy Listing
    • His Majesty, Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden ~ Honoring him in Lindsborg and at Bethany College, 1976 >
      • Mr. Bill Carlson's Lindsborg's Bethany Home & the Swedish King's Visit
  • Contacts
    • For Lindsborg, 1869, CONTACT Today >
      • 2020 Christmas: "Ljuskröna and Apple Tree Exhibit" online presentation
      • 2020 Christmas; 'Welcome to Annandag Jul Worship from Sunnemo & Lindsborg"
    • ​For Bethany College, 1881, CONTACT Today
    • Closing Remarks & Traveling through SWEDES >
      • The Swedish American Legacy Photographs >
        • ​Lydia's Lindsborg's Photography​, ​1900 - 1925
        • Lydia's Bethany's Photography, ​1906 - 1925
Artist Lydia Sohlberg Deere
​<>  Their Legacy Art Community  <>
Study various schools, traditions and masters..., but do not let them take away from you the most precious gift of the Creator, your own individuality.
 Individuality and Nature in honest partnership will always create new and fascinating works of art that will never grow old.
​                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         --Sandz
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Lydia's Art Professor Sven Birger Sandzén
1871-1954

~ Her classes with him from 1919 - 1923 ~
Lydia was just one art student of thousands with great artistic potential who learned their craft under the Swedish master, Sven Birger Sandzén.   Of those students, many of their works hang in the home galleries of Lindsborg residents, churches, schools, establishments and at the seniors' Bethany Home hall galleries.  To this day, these paintings continue to take the viewer back to thoughts of "the way they were," Sandzén with his students, who created these works of inspiration, beauty, and wonder!
Sandzén was born in Blidsberg, Västergötland, Sweden in 1871. His father, Rektor Johan Peter, was a Lutheran minister, and his mother, Clara Caroline Elizabeth Sylvén,  a water colorist.  As a young man, he had been schooled under the instruction of Stockholm's internationally known Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860-1920) and the Swedish artist Richard Bergh (1858-1919) who became director of the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm.  
During Sandzén's early days as a struggling art student in Stockholm, fourth Swedish American Bethany College president Dr.  Emory Lindquist in his 1993 book, Birger Sandzén, An Illustrated Biography, writes on page 11, that Birger Sandzén " '...lived austerely within his limited financial resources, and at times he was uncertain about the future.'     He wrote in a letter to his father [a pastor] in October of 1892, describing his situation:  '...Although it already seems as if the life of an artist is difficult and trying, I cannot but believe that it is God's will that I go this path.  I think that I have been almost led by Him step by step for several years in that direction, and it cannot be His intention to permit an honest, hard-working and struggling person to suffer want because he has chosen in many respects a difficult career in life.' "  
Early in the year of 1894, Sandzén would finish his art studies in Paris with Edmond François Aman-Jean (1858-1936) who at one time shared a studio with Georges-Pierre Seurat, a post-impressionist painter.  Aman-Jean was a former student of the École des Beaux-Arts and promoter of impressionism whose works of art had won him recognition in the leading galleries of Europe. 

Lindquist describes Sandzén's Paris experiences in his book
on pages 13 and 14 as follows:  "The great cultural traditions of Paris enabled Sandzén to immerse himself in the beauty and meaning of art historically, and the lively activity stimulated him to enrich his own talents.  As a young painter surrounded by the inspiring work of famous painters, printmakers, sculptors, and architects, he felt a new sense of belonging to a great tradition.  He was free to paint, to view masterpieces, to discuss art, and culture generally with kindred spirits, to dream, and to share in the life of a Parisian.  The Café Versailles and the Restaurant Le Maitre were favorite meeting places of the art students where they shared good food, pleasant fellowship, and fine music.  The environment inspired Sandzén to full dedication to what now seemed truly to be his life's calling….”

Sandzén’s Aman-Jean classes included students from 12 other nations, some of whom were from America, a country which intrigued Sandzén.  The vastness of it and the great promise that it held for foreigners as well as the abundant opportunities it held for artists to paint the beauty and splendor of landscapes untouched was persuasive and enthralling. 
Sandzén Student
- LYDIA SOHLBERG DEERE -
(1873-1943)

KANSAS

Picture
Courtesy of Lindsborg owner.

This new land, along with the captivating literature on Lindsborg and Bethany College, Sandzén read from the 1891 book,  I Sverige, (In Sweden) by Swedish American Bethany College founder, Dr. Rev. Carl Aaron Swensson, further fueled the fire of Sandzén’s dream to one day live in America. 
 
Hence, despite Sandzén's studies with Zorn and Berg in Stockholm -- the beautiful Venice of the North, and his stimulating experiences as an art student in Paris -- the most splendid cultural capital in the world, Swedish Lindsborg, centered in the great barren plains of Kansas, won his heart, finding him writing a letter from Paris in February of 1894 to Swensson regarding employment to become an instructor at Bethany College.
As Swensson was traveling through Europe during that same year, he met with Sandzén in Paris.  He was so impressed by him that he invited the twenty-three (23) year old Swede to join the Bethany faculty.   Thus, Sandzén was on his way to America, to Kansas, to Lindsborg, to Bethany College, to begin his teaching career, and to paint the landscapes of the American West!

This was the Sandzén that Bethany College would received in late 1894 -- an artist fresh from Paris, full of cultural joy and ideas, wanting to share them all with those at the College.  These were the planted seeds which would eventually begin an art movement drawing many in the Kansas Smoky Hill Valley, students and residents alike, to study and to appreciate art at Bethany College.

While his first assignments as a professor at Bethany College were to teach courses in Swedish, German and French, Sandzén also assisted Olof Grafström (1855-1933) in the Art Department.  Grafström,  born in Attmar, Medelpad, Sweden, would graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm with two of Sandzén's former teachers, Anders Zorn and Richard Bergh in 1882.  There after, he began his career as an artist painting the landscapes of Northern Sweden and Lappland until 1887 when Grafström moved to Portland, Oregon to paint the American Northwest. Before moving to Lindsborg to teach art at Bethany College in 1893, he also lived and painted in Spokane, Washington, and San Francisco.

In 1897, when Grafström accepted the position as head of the Art Department at Augustana College, founder and second president of Bethany College Dr. Rev. Carl A. Swensson, upon the recommendation of Sandzén, hired Carl Gustafson Lotav
é (1872-1924) to become the head of the Art Department.  Born in Jönköping, Småland, Sweden,  Lotavé had been a classmate of Sandzén's while they studied together under Anders Zorn in Stockholm in 1891.  He was already a recognized and established artist on the Continent whose subjects he painted were of European Royalty and famous persons. 

In 1899, when Professor Lotav
é was hired by the Smithsonian Institution to paint Native American scenes, he relocated to Colorado Springs at which time Sandzén became the Chair for the Art Department at Bethany.  His predecessor and friend was to finish his art career in New York City painting portraits including those of famous World War I American Generals. 


Sandz
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- HILDING JADERBORG -
Lindsborg's Swedish Crafts' Owner
(1921-2011)
KANSAS

Picture
Source: Bing Images

Thus, Lydia’s art professor was destined to live his dream, to paint the American landscape of the wild rugged West by becoming a Swedish American pioneer settling in the little Swedish city of Lindsborg to teach art at Bethany College.
 
Sandzén would leave an incredible "legacy of visual art" behind in Lindsborg, and art of which would filter out to other parts of the nation, to Europe and Sweden.  The abundance of art in Lindsborg is the direct result of Sandzén’s ability to have instilled a contagious love for art and its understanding with his students, and, more generally throughout the Smoky Valley, and specifically within this tiny "isolated" rural Kansas community (as many considered Lindsborg, then, to be "isolated"), which to this day still draws artists to visit temporarily or to settle there and practice their craft.

Because of his great contribution to culture through art, this Swedish gentlemen and Swedish American pioneer, Sven Birger Sandzén, was destined to be honored by the Swedish Crown two times being knighted by the King’s emissaries, receiving Sweden's "Order of Vasa" in 1901 and the "Order of the North Star" in 1940. 

The art that Sandzén was exposed to in Sweden and France as a student and later as a traveler throughout Europe, he most certainly shared with his students in the Smoky Valley of Kansas.  To share his knowledge and passion for art was his mission then, parts of which so appropriately live on to this day at the Lindsborg art gallery which bears his name, the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, with the mission statement that reads: "Sharing the arts with the world, through the life and vision of Birger Sandzén."  

This gallery was lovingly established by his only child, Margaret Sandzén Greenough, and her husband, Dr. Pelham Greenough III, a Bostonian.  These two individuals, like Sandzén, would also be recognized and honored similarly by the Swedish Crown -- for Dr. Pelham Greenough in 1963, and for his wife Dr. Margaret Greenough in 1991. 

Dr. Emory Lindquist  who has written so fluently and passionately in his book on Birger 
Sandzén and his art was also knighted personally in Lindsborg at Bethany College by the Swedish Crown, King Carl XVI Gustaf,  in 1976, for his similar cultural contributions. 
Sandzén Student
- Dr. LEON LUNGSTROM -
Bethany College Biology Professor
(1915-2000)
KANSAS

To be clear, Lindquist portrays Sandzén as not belonging to any school of art, as he continued in his own style.

On page 23, Lindquist writes,  “As a teacher of art, Sandzén put forth a central principle that 'the art teacher as well as the critic and the general public should respect and encourage a sound and healthy individualism which is the one normal and logical motive power in art production, and should discourage imitation, repetition and standardization.  A work of art is a personal message from soul-to-soul and cannot be made after formulas.  The Cézanne formula will not lead to goals any more than the old academic recipe.'   
Giving further emphasis to individualism, Sandzén observed: 'Fortunately, every artist has the opportunity of counseling with a teacher that is always ready to give the very best advice to the sincere and unsophisticated disciple.  The name of the great master is Nature.  Study various schools, traditions and masters as much as you like, but do not let them take away from you the most precious gift of the Creator, your own individuality.  Individuality and Nature in honest partnership will always create new and fascinating works of art that will never grow old. . . . If we study long enough with the Great Teacher [nature] we shall gradually work our way through imitation to free interpretation.' ”

Sandzé
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- ZONA WHEELER -
"Third Dimension Studio"  Owner
(1913-1998)
KANSAS

Picture
Source: www.gatewaygalleries.com
Bethany College Catalogue from October 15 - December 31, 2005
Cover:  Background by Wheeler; Foreground by A Sandzén
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For Lydia's Assignments for Professor Sandzén, go HERE.
​For
Students of Sandzén 2019 Exhibition, go HERE.
For
Lydia's Sandzén's Body of Work Reviewed by N.Y.C. 1984 "American Impressionism," author William H. Gerdts, go HERE.
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