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Arthur
Harold Lindberg
1895 Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the
son of an immigrant Swedish Metal Worker.
1909 At 14 years old, worked his first job
at the Goddard works of the Wickwire-Spencer Company, Worcester. (Worked 54
hours a week at 10 cents an hour)
1915
Graduated from high school at the
age of 20, took art classes at the Worcester Art Museum School, then studied at
the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.
1917 During his senior year at Pratt,
enlisted in the US Air Force and served 14 months in France as a Sergeant-Major
during World War I.
1919-22 After the war, returned to Worcester,
worked at Wickwire-Spencer and resumed evening art classes at the Worcester
Museum School, and then moved to New York City.
1922-30 Studied nights at the Grand Central School
of Art, and the Art Students League of NY, where he was awarded a life
membership for his superior work.
Studied under Harvey Dunn, Dean Cornwell, Frank Vincent Dummond and
George Bridgeman. Worked as a commercial
artist. Became friends with Girard Delano
and a student of Walter Beck, who advised him in making his own pastels.
1927 Married Esther Perry Barlow, who
learned to paint under his tutelage and became and accomplished watercolorist
and was also an award winning quilter.
They moved to Long Island, NY, the new headquarters of Wickwire-Spencer.
1928-29 Illustrated Western Magazines – now
referred to as pulps
1931 Daughter, Perryann born
1933-37 instructor & Registrar at Nassau
Institute of Art
1937-38 Did illustrations for Gulf Oil Company weekly
cartoon strip about the Mayan Indians.
1939 Received BFA at the Pratt institute
1941 Received BE in Art at the Pratt
Institute, and moved to Buffalo, NY.
Took Art Instructors position at Kenmore Senior High School.
1942-43 Worked steel production in the summer in
Western NY factories doing war production.
1944-45 Taught private art classes, did illuminated
scrolls, started doing art restoration of paintings.
1946 Summer study, received MA at Columbia
University
1946-48 Obtained permission from the City of
Buffalo to enter industrial site (previously restricted due to defense work)
and executed a series of fifty paintings.
He found beauty and color even in the blast furnaces of Bethlehem Steel.
1947 One man show at Carl Bredemier
Gallery, Buffalo, “Our Industrial Waterfront”.
Received Frontiersman Award from Buffalo Business Magazine for the time
and effort he had given to the presentation of Buffalo Industrial scenes in oil
paintings.
During the mind 1940’s was
voted into the Buffalo Society of Artists by its members. Exhibited in the society’s membership shows
and served as its president in 1954 and 1955.
Arthur H. Lindberg
devoted his retirement years to art, private art classes, illuminated scrolls, cleaning
and restoration of paintings, commissioned portraits and Fall painting trips to
New England. Increasingly frustrated and
disillusioned by emphasis on and the support of abstract art in the Buffalo Art
Community, he refused to exhibit his work for fear of being misunderstood and
rejected for continuing as a realist in such pro-abstract surroundings.
He was commissioned to do
illuminated scrolls for many groups and people in the Buffalo area. He was especially proud of the scroll which
was presented in 1955 to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of England.
Art was active with the
Buffalo Society of Artists and was president for a couple of years. He sketched with Art Kowalski, Bill Ludecke
and Walter Prochoniak.
Art painted in oil,
watercolors and pastel. He loved to
include water in his paintings and was drawn to the shipyards in New England,
as well as the waterfront in Buffalo.
Another series of his paintings represented the area around Stowe, VT
with its’ brilliant fall color.
1953 Did independent study in Sweden and
Denmark, and was included in Who’s Who of American Artists.
1977 Died in Kenmore, NY.
1980 Retrospective show at AAO Gallery,
Buffalo, NY.
1982 One man show, “Beauty in Buffalo
Industry”, held at the International Institute, Buffalo.
1984 Included in exhibit “Buffalo
Waterfront”, at the Charles Burchfield Center, State University College at
buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
1987 Included in exhibit and catalogue “The
Wayward Muse: A Historical Survey of Paintings in Buffalo”, The Albright-Knox
Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
1987-88 One man show of industrial paintings of
Buffalo’s waterfront, Linda Hyman Gallery, NY City, NY.
1988 Retrospective exhibit of drawings,
watercolors, pastels, lithographs and oil from 1916 to the late 1960’s, at Art
Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
2009 Six of Arthur H. Lindberg’s pieces are
in the Burchfield Penney Collection, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
and one piece is in the permanent collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, NY.
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[24] Mimi and Papa
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[29] Arthur H. Lindberg Article Pg. 1
[30] Restoration Before and After
Previous Post:
Cartoonist Arthur H. Lindberg (“Lyndell”) and Gulf Funny Weekly
Arthur H. Lindberg’s Gulf Funny Weekly comics and artwork
have been donated to Ohio State University
Special thanks to Pam H.
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Thank you again John, this shows how talented and well versed my grandfather was. He was quite the artist!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this article! I'd not heard of Arthur Lindberg before, but I was familiar with his work, now that I see this. I collect pulp magazines published by Clayton, and several of these examples are from Clayton pulps. And incidentally, I'm originally from Buffalo, and was nice to see all the Buffalo references!
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