Anders Aldrin - Hill and Valley 1943 Oil on Board P3296

Art measures 18" x 22", and the frame is 21" x 25 1/2". Our collection of Aldrin's work is unmatched. Portraits, landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes , the figure, still lifes, even the oil sketches.... all are exciting and fiercely original. This painter who sees volumes first where others see line, and senses the colors that hide behind the colors, produced a body of work that repays close study, and continues to grow and deepen the longer you live with it. An artist aware of everything being done in art, and who patiently went his own way. Anders Gustave Aldrin was born in Varmland, Sweden, in 1889. He came to the U.S. when he was 21. He served his new country in France in WWI. Although he’d taken a correspondence course in art while still living in Sweden, it wasn’t until he settled in L.A. after WWI that his education took off. Aldrin was a unique figure in contemporary American art. His art is individual, expressing his personal emotions and perceptions in a style that varied in te