Sven Ohrvel Carlson - Artist Info

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    Carlson, Sven Ohrvel (1911-2006)

    Obituary. By Gloria Negri, the Boston Globe staff.

    Artist Sven Ohrvel Carlson was also a sculptor, a professional jazz and classical violinist, a composer, and a poet, died August 22, 2006 of prostate cancer at Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester. He was 95.

    Mr. Carlson, who preferred to be known by his middle name, was born in West Orange, New Jersey, where his father worked for the Thomas A. Edison factory. When I was 5,” he wrote in his unpublished memoirs,” dad bought a small watercolor set and one night at the kitchen table…he painted a small picture of trees along the side of a pond with light, shadow and reflections…on the water. To me, it ...

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