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Museums page for Carl Oscar Borg ((1879 - 1947)), known for Western, Indian genre, and landscape painting. Showing 20 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1879 Dais-Grinstad, Sweden - 1947 Santa Barbara, California. Known for: Western, Indian genre, and landscape painting.
Known for Southwest Indian portraits in various mediums including oil, watercolor, etchings, and woodblock, Carl Oscar Borg was born in Dais-Grinstad, Sweden. His family was poor, and he was largely... Read full biography
Known for Southwest Indian portraits in various mediums including oil, watercolor, etchings, and woodblock, Carl Oscar Borg was born in Dais-Grinstad, Sweden. His family was poor, and he was largely self-taught. He showed early art talent, and as a child copied pictures from books. At age 15, he... Read full biography
Known for Southwest Indian portraits in various mediums including oil, watercolor, etchings, and woodblock, Carl Oscar Borg was born in Dais-Grinstad, Sweden. His family was poor, and he was largely self-taught. He showed early art talent, and as a child copied pictures from books. At age 15, he apprenticed to a house painter, and at age 20, moved to London and assisted portrait and marine artist George Johansen. In 1901, he arrived in San Francisco from Sweden, having jumped ship as a seaman... Read full biography
Known for Southwest Indian portraits in various mediums including oil, watercolor, etchings, and woodblock, Carl Oscar Borg was born in Dais-Grinstad, Sweden. His family was poor, and he was largely self-taught. He showed early art talent, and as a child copied pictures from books. At age 15, he apprenticed to a house painter, and at age 20, moved to London and assisted portrait and marine artist George Johansen. In 1901, he arrived in San Francisco from Sweden, having jumped ship as a seaman on the "S.S. Arizonan." He walked the rail track to Los Angeles, and learned painting techniques from William Wendt, well-known landscape artist. Sponsored by Phoebe Hearst, mother of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, Borg studied art in Paris... Read full biography
Known for Southwest Indian portraits in various mediums including oil, watercolor, etchings, and woodblock, Carl Oscar Borg was born in Dais-Grinstad, Sweden. His family was poor, and he was largely self-taught. He showed early art talent, and as a child copied pictures from books. At age 15, he apprenticed to a house painter, and at age 20, moved to London and assisted portrait and marine artist George Johansen. In 1901, he arrived in San Francisco from Sweden, having jumped ship as a seaman on the "S.S. Arizonan." He walked the rail track to Los Angeles, and learned painting techniques from William Wendt, well-known landscape artist. Sponsored by Phoebe Hearst, mother of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, Borg studied art in Paris and Rome, and with Hearst's encouragement, also painted Indian portraits. He then taught at the Cal... Read full biography
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Museums & Collections (20)
All MuseumsBall State University Museum of Art
2000 W. University Avenue
Muncie, IN 47306Bowers Museum
2002 North Main Street
Santa Ana, CA 92706Butler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502California Nature Art Museum
1511 B Mission Dr.
Solvang, CA 93463Desert Caballeros Western Museum
21 N. Frontier St.
Wickenburg, AZ 85390Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians-Western Art
500 West Washington
Indianapolis, IN 46204Hickory Museum of Art
243 Third Avenue N.E.
Hickory, NC 28601Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
P.O. Box 150
Ganado, AZ 86505Laguna Art Museum
307 Cliff Drive
Laguna Beach, CA 92651Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
North Campus Drive
Box 23300
Provo, UT 84602-1400National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
1700 Ne 63rd Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73111National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004New Mexico Museum of Art
113 Lincoln Avenue
Santa Fe, NM 87501Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607Phoenix Art Museum
1625 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004-1685San Diego Museum of Art
Balboa Park, 1450 el Prado
Po 122107
San Diego, CA 92101Stark Museum of Art
712 Green Avenue
Orange, TX 77630UCI Institute and Museum for California Art
18881 von Karman Avenue
Suite 100
Irvine, CA 92612Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah
Marcia & John Price Museum Building
410 Campus Center Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84112