Western Illustrations of Arthur H. Lindberg

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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[26] Shields & Co. Mural

[27] Courtyard Art Show

[28] Richard Nixon Scroll

[29] Arthur H. Lindberg Article Pg. 1

[30] Restoration Before and After

Previous Post:

Cartoonist Arthur H. Lindberg (“Lyndell”) and Gulf Funny Weekly 

HERE

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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