Carl E. Wallin
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Carl Efraim Wallin was a Swedish-American artist and painting contractor. He was born in Östra Husby
parish in the province of Östergötland
, Sweden
and died in Chicago
, Illinois
, United States.
), espcially winter
landscape
painting, portrait painting
, figures (drawing), nature
painting and symbolic fantasy compositions, related to symbolism (arts)
. Sometimes he also focused on illustration of biblical and mythological figures, e.g. from the greek mythology
. Wallin mostly earned his living as an independent painting contractor with his own staffing agency. He was aliasis: Carl E. Wallin, Carl Ephraim Wallin, Carl Wallin, CE Wallin.
Carl E. Wallin was the son of the local farmer and carpenter Alexander Wallin (1839–1929) and his wife Inga Helena Larsdotter (1841–1887), both of them from Vikbolandet
. Carl E. Wallin was the brother of the Swedish artist David Wallin
(1876–1957) and he was the uncle of the Swedish artist Bianca Wallin
(1909–2006) and the Swedish artist Sigurd Wallin
(1916–1999). In 1907 he married Hilma Högberg (1887–1951). He became an American citizen in the early 1900s.
parish on Vikbolandet
east of Norrköping
city in the province of Östergötland
in Sweden
in a large household with many siblings, a sister and four brothers and also some other children in the household within the family. Varby had been in the family since the 17th century. The home was strictly religious, and his father turned to the Bible for daily guidance.
After finishing school Carl worked as a painter’s apprentice at 17–18 years of age (1896–1897). In 1898 he moved to Norrköping
. He was a non-commissioned officer
in Vaxholm
in the Stockholm archipelago
at The Royal Coastal Artillery Regiment of Vaxholm (Sweden)
, (KA1), in the Swedish Coastal Artillery
, which was just formed in 1902, at 21–23 years of age (1900–1902).
. From Gothenburg
he travelled by boat, by the American lines steamship S/S Rollo, to Grimsby
seaport on the eastcoast of England
and then by railway via London
to Southampton
on the south-east coast of England
. From Southampton
he departured by steamship S/S Saint Paul to New York
. "After crossing the ocean in 7 days" he arrived in New York
on December 14, 1902. From New York
he travelled via Chicago
and Kansas City, Kansas
, and then he arrived in Denver in Colorado
.
in the evenings. Carl E. Wallin had, like his older brother, the artist David Wallin
, always been interested in art and got after his arrival to America, "the opportunity to study at Reed's Art School
in Denver, Colorado
, where he studied at evening teaching for two years (1903-1904)". In 1904 he moved to Chicago
, Illinois
. Chicago was the city with the second highest number of Swedes after Stockholm, the capital of Sweden (in the year 1900). By then, Swedes in Chicago had founded a church and established such enduring institutions as a hospital and a university. Chicago
is the largest city in the state of Illinois
.
In Chicago
he settled down to study at the art academy at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Illinois, where he studied for three years (1905–1908). The school is also associated with the encyclopedic fine art museum the Art Institute of Chicago
. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is one of America's largest independent schools of art and design, located in The Loop, Chicago.
, Chicago, Illinois and Carl worked as a self-employed and entrepreneurial and ran his own painting company while he painted for his own amusement. He devoted his free time to the art, because he was nearly always occupied to do his work with his business as contractor painter as a self-empolyed person. Common traits of entrepreneurs are curiosity, creativity, a positive approach to work, independence, perseverance, dedication, optimism and visionary thinking. Chicago in Cook County was Carl’s and Hilma’s residence city and it is the second most populous county in the United States after Los Angeles County. His wife Hilma Wallin died in 1951.
Wallin’s genius
is peculiarly his own. He is original and his paintings of fantasy are creations of his own, which remind one of the work of the French artist Gustave Doré. Gustave Doré
is an artist who has been labeled in the art genre fantastic art
. Many of Wallin's paintings have won signal honors at the Chicago Art Institute, where he was a student for four years. He has won several prizes. There are inspirations of biblical figure paintings in the oil paintings “Gethsemane
” (1931), ”Spirit
of Allegheny Mountains
”, ”Nymphs beside pool”, ”Nude on beach”, ” Garden of Eden
”, ” Sorrows before Paradise
” and ”Heaven
and Hell
” and of his mythological figure paintings from the greek mythology
in ”Siren
” (1934). Wallin executed many figurative art
works and landscape art
works in a quasi-symbolist style.
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Exhibitions from early 1910s to middle 1960s
Membership
Carl E. Wallin was a member of the following associations:
Swedish American Art Association, Chicago Galleries Association, Chicago, All-Illinois Society of Fine Art, Chicago and The Swedish Club of Chicago.
Prices
He won several prices and he also received many awards and honors at the Swedish-American exhibitions. Carl E. Wallin exhibited in Sweden at the 1920 Swedish-American touring exhibition in Stockholm. It was a touring exhibition with the 100 best works, which was completed during the last 10 years of Swedish-American artists and the exhibition was opened in Stockholm on June 6, 1920. “At an art exhibition at the Swedish club’s building in Chicago the painter Carl E. Wallin was awarded first price for an oilpainting, and which amount came to $100 and had been donated by the State Bank of Chicago
. The price awarded work was “Evening Fantasy” and it had been brought up as number 107 in the catalog for the exhibition”, according to a Chicago newspaper in the 1920s.
Collection of Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt
Sweden maintained an almost maternal relationship to its emigrant artists during the period of heaviest emigration to America, 1880-1920. The emigrant artists were included in dictionaries on equal footing with those artists who remained in Sweden.
A number of paintings in the collection of Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt appear to have come from the 1929 exhibition of “Swedish-American Artists Given Under the Auspices of the Swedish American Art Association” at Illinois Women’s Athletic club, March 10–17, 1929. Although the catalog does not give measurement, several titles correlate with the collection in Gothenburg. For example Carl. E. Wallin’s paintining “Icebound”, listed in the 1929 catalog for the Chicago exhibition, could possibly be the collection’s painting “Fjällets Själ”, (“Mountain Face”), a winter mountainous landscape in which a nude painted in shades of white and grey, is encased in snow on the face of the steep mountain peak. Wallin’s painting from the 1928 exhibition, “Fantasy in Frost” has a title that also correlates with the subject matter of the work in the collection. His mystical landscapes were shown in several Swedish-American art exhibitions during the 1920s and his work is in the collection of Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt.
”Portrait of Carl Wallin” (1913) (this is a self-portrait), ”Portrait of Mrs. Nickelson” (1913), ”Sunlight” (1913), ”Winter Day” (1916), ”Mrs. Wallin – Portrait” (1917), ”A Study” (1918), ”Martha” (1918), ”Just After Sunset” (1919), ”Violet” (1919), ”Bernhardina” (1924), ”Evening” (1924), ”Sunset” (1924), ”Aged” (1925), ”Evening Fantasy”(1925) (the oilpainting ”Evening Fantasy” won first price at the exhibition in Chicago, exhibited in 1925), ”Night Fantasy” (1925), ”Summernight in Sweden” (1925), ”Dreams” (1926), ”Earthbound” (1926), ”Summer” (1926), ”Cloud Fantasy” (1937) (Compare: ”Evening Fantasy”, exhibited in 1925 and “Frost Fantasy”, exhibited in 1941 and 1946), ”Frost Maidens at Work” (1947), ”Frost Maidens at Work” (1941, again), ”Snowbound” (1941), ”Frost Fantasy” (1946), ”River in Winter” (1947), ”Snow and Ice” (1948), ”Winter” (1949–1950) (the original is now in the ownership of the city of Gothenburg), ”Earth Bound” (1951), ”Frost” (1955), ”Hilma” (1957), ”Fantasy” (1959), ”Ice Grotto”, (1961), ”Mountain Genius”, (1964) The oilpainting "Mountain Genius" (1931) is now represented in: Utlandssvenska museet in Gothenburg. Some other of Wallin’s paintings, not exhibited, were ”Winter scene with creek and distant mountains” and ”Lonely Rower”.
Östra Husby
Östra Husby is a locality situated in Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 774 inhabitants in 2005. It lies 20 kilometers east of Norrköping and 16 kilometers northeast of Söderköping, Sweden. There are a few shops in the town and one school...
parish in the province of Östergötland
Östergötland
Östergötland, English exonym: East Gothland, is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden in the south of Sweden. It borders Småland, Västergötland, Närke, Södermanland, and the Baltic Sea. In older English literature, one might also encounter the Latinized version, Ostrogothia...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
and died in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
, United States.
Background
Carl E. Wallin was best known for his oil paintings like landscape with figures (landscape artLandscape art
Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...
), espcially winter
Winter
Winter is the coldest season of the year in temperate climates, between autumn and spring. At the winter solstice, the days are shortest and the nights are longest, with days lengthening as the season progresses after the solstice.-Meteorology:...
landscape
Landscape
Landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including the physical elements of landforms such as mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of...
painting, portrait painting
Portrait painting
Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to depict the visual appearance of the subject. Beside human beings, animals, pets and even inanimate objects can be chosen as the subject for a portrait...
, figures (drawing), nature
Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...
painting and symbolic fantasy compositions, related to symbolism (arts)
Symbolism (arts)
Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire...
. Sometimes he also focused on illustration of biblical and mythological figures, e.g. from the greek mythology
Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
. Wallin mostly earned his living as an independent painting contractor with his own staffing agency. He was aliasis: Carl E. Wallin, Carl Ephraim Wallin, Carl Wallin, CE Wallin.
Carl E. Wallin was the son of the local farmer and carpenter Alexander Wallin (1839–1929) and his wife Inga Helena Larsdotter (1841–1887), both of them from Vikbolandet
Vikbolandet
Vikbolandet is a large peninsula east of Norrköping city in Östergötland, Sweden. The area is limited by Bråviken to the north, Slätbaken to the south and the Baltic sea to the east. The biggest population center is Östra Husby with a population of 788, followed by Ljunga and Arkösund on the...
. Carl E. Wallin was the brother of the Swedish artist David Wallin
David Wallin
David August Wallin was a Swedish artist...
(1876–1957) and he was the uncle of the Swedish artist Bianca Wallin
Bianca Wallin
Bianca Wallin was a Swedish artist.-Biography:Bianca Wallin grew up in Stockholm, Sweden. She was the daughter of the Swedish artist David Wallin and his wife Elin Wallin , Stockholm...
(1909–2006) and the Swedish artist Sigurd Wallin
Sigurd Wallin
David Sigurd Wallin, born June 10, 1916 in Nora rural parish in Örebro County in Sweden, he grew up in Stockholm, dead May 8, 1999 in Stockholm in Sweden, was a Swedish artist....
(1916–1999). In 1907 he married Hilma Högberg (1887–1951). He became an American citizen in the early 1900s.
Early years
Carl E. Wallin grew up on a farm, Varby farmyard, in Östra HusbyÖstra Husby
Östra Husby is a locality situated in Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 774 inhabitants in 2005. It lies 20 kilometers east of Norrköping and 16 kilometers northeast of Söderköping, Sweden. There are a few shops in the town and one school...
parish on Vikbolandet
Vikbolandet
Vikbolandet is a large peninsula east of Norrköping city in Östergötland, Sweden. The area is limited by Bråviken to the north, Slätbaken to the south and the Baltic sea to the east. The biggest population center is Östra Husby with a population of 788, followed by Ljunga and Arkösund on the...
east of Norrköping
Norrköping
Norrköping is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County. The city has a population of 87,247 inhabitants in 2010, out of a municipal total of 130,050, making it Sweden's tenth largest city and eighth largest...
city in the province of Östergötland
Östergötland
Östergötland, English exonym: East Gothland, is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden in the south of Sweden. It borders Småland, Västergötland, Närke, Södermanland, and the Baltic Sea. In older English literature, one might also encounter the Latinized version, Ostrogothia...
in Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
in a large household with many siblings, a sister and four brothers and also some other children in the household within the family. Varby had been in the family since the 17th century. The home was strictly religious, and his father turned to the Bible for daily guidance.
After finishing school Carl worked as a painter’s apprentice at 17–18 years of age (1896–1897). In 1898 he moved to Norrköping
Norrköping
Norrköping is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County. The city has a population of 87,247 inhabitants in 2010, out of a municipal total of 130,050, making it Sweden's tenth largest city and eighth largest...
. He was a non-commissioned officer
Non-commissioned officer
A non-commissioned officer , called a sub-officer in some countries, is a military officer who has not been given a commission...
in Vaxholm
Vaxholm
Vaxholm is a locality and the seat of Vaxholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. It is located in the Stockholm archipelago. The name Vaxholm comes from Vaxholm Castle, which was constructed in 1549 on an islet with this name on the inlet to Stockholm, for defense purposes, by King Gustav...
in the Stockholm archipelago
Stockholm archipelago
The Stockholm archipelago is the largest archipelago of Sweden, and one of the largest archipelagos of the Baltic Sea.-Geography:The archipelago extends from Stockholm roughly 60 kilometers to the east...
at The Royal Coastal Artillery Regiment of Vaxholm (Sweden)
Swedish coastal artillery
The Swedish coastal artillery has its origin in the Archipelago Artillery that was raised in 1866. The Coastal Artillery was formed from the Archipelago Artillery, the Marine Regiment and parts of the Artillery in 1902...
, (KA1), in the Swedish Coastal Artillery
Swedish coastal artillery
The Swedish coastal artillery has its origin in the Archipelago Artillery that was raised in 1866. The Coastal Artillery was formed from the Archipelago Artillery, the Marine Regiment and parts of the Artillery in 1902...
, which was just formed in 1902, at 21–23 years of age (1900–1902).
The emigration to the United States in 1902
At the age of 23 Carl E. Wallin emigrated to the United States of America in December 1902, and at first he came to Denver in ColoradoColorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
. From Gothenburg
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
he travelled by boat, by the American lines steamship S/S Rollo, to Grimsby
Grimsby
Grimsby is a seaport on the Humber Estuary in Lincolnshire, England. It has been the administrative centre of the unitary authority area of North East Lincolnshire since 1996...
seaport on the eastcoast of England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and then by railway via London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
to Southampton
Southampton
Southampton is the largest city in the county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is situated south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest...
on the south-east coast of England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. From Southampton
Southampton
Southampton is the largest city in the county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is situated south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest...
he departured by steamship S/S Saint Paul to New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. "After crossing the ocean in 7 days" he arrived in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
on December 14, 1902. From New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
he travelled via Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
and Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified...
, and then he arrived in Denver in Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
.
Studies in Denver and at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
He stayed in Denver and worked during the days and began studying at an art schoolArt school
Art school is a general term for any educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. The term applies to institutions with elementary, secondary, post-secondary or undergraduate, or graduate or...
in the evenings. Carl E. Wallin had, like his older brother, the artist David Wallin
David Wallin
David August Wallin was a Swedish artist...
, always been interested in art and got after his arrival to America, "the opportunity to study at Reed's Art School
Art school
Art school is a general term for any educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. The term applies to institutions with elementary, secondary, post-secondary or undergraduate, or graduate or...
in Denver, Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
, where he studied at evening teaching for two years (1903-1904)". In 1904 he moved to Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
. Chicago was the city with the second highest number of Swedes after Stockholm, the capital of Sweden (in the year 1900). By then, Swedes in Chicago had founded a church and established such enduring institutions as a hospital and a university. Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
is the largest city in the state of Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
.
In Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
he settled down to study at the art academy at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Illinois, where he studied for three years (1905–1908). The school is also associated with the encyclopedic fine art museum the Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is one of America's largest independent schools of art and design, located in The Loop, Chicago.
Marriage and painting contractor in Chicago
While studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Carl E. Wallin married Hilma Högberg in 1907, a young girl who was only 20 years old, and Carl was 28 years old. Their first home was in Cook CountyCook County, Illinois
Cook County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois, with its county seat in Chicago. It is the second most populous county in the United States after Los Angeles County. The county has 5,194,675 residents, which is 40.5 percent of all Illinois residents. Cook County's population is larger than...
, Chicago, Illinois and Carl worked as a self-employed and entrepreneurial and ran his own painting company while he painted for his own amusement. He devoted his free time to the art, because he was nearly always occupied to do his work with his business as contractor painter as a self-empolyed person. Common traits of entrepreneurs are curiosity, creativity, a positive approach to work, independence, perseverance, dedication, optimism and visionary thinking. Chicago in Cook County was Carl’s and Hilma’s residence city and it is the second most populous county in the United States after Los Angeles County. His wife Hilma Wallin died in 1951.
Oil paintings and motifs
Carl E. Wallin mostly painted in oil and his subjects were portraits and landscapes, often winter motifs, and figures, nature pictures and symbolic fantasy compositions. He was often known for landscapes with figures which was his speciality and he often painted in oil in the style of early 20th century modernist painting before 1950. He owned an awaken eye for the beautifulness in the nature and for a long time he strived to render everything as true to life as possible on his canvases. Later on his development led into another direction. That was the idea or the thought behind the work of art that was so much important from his part of view. His works also showed a great richness of ideas and fantasy. He did not belong to the ultramodern school. He himself thought that a work of art was unsuccessful if not anyone else but the artist himself could understand it. There ought to be an idea behind every painting.Wallin’s genius
Genius
Genius is something or someone embodying exceptional intellectual ability, creativity, or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of unprecedented insight....
is peculiarly his own. He is original and his paintings of fantasy are creations of his own, which remind one of the work of the French artist Gustave Doré. Gustave Doré
Gustave Doré
Paul Gustave Doré was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving and steel engraving.-Biography:...
is an artist who has been labeled in the art genre fantastic art
Fantastic art
Fantastic art is an art genre. The parameters of fantastic art have been fairly rigorously defined in the scholarship on the subject ever since the 19th century. There was a movement of science fiction and fantasy artists prior to and during the Great Depression, which were mainly cover art and...
. Many of Wallin's paintings have won signal honors at the Chicago Art Institute, where he was a student for four years. He has won several prizes. There are inspirations of biblical figure paintings in the oil paintings “Gethsemane
Gethsemane
Gethsemane is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem most famous as the place where, according to Biblical texts, Jesus and his disciples are said to have prayed the night before Jesus' crucifixion.- Etymology :...
” (1931), ”Spirit
Spirit
The English word spirit has many differing meanings and connotations, most of them relating to a non-corporeal substance contrasted with the material body.The spirit of a living thing usually refers to or explains its consciousness.The notions of a person's "spirit" and "soul" often also overlap,...
of Allegheny Mountains
Allegheny Mountains
The Allegheny Mountain Range , also spelled Alleghany, Allegany and, informally, the Alleghenies, is part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the eastern United States and Canada...
”, ”Nymphs beside pool”, ”Nude on beach”, ” Garden of Eden
Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden is in the Bible's Book of Genesis as being the place where the first man, Adam, and his wife, Eve, lived after they were created by God. Literally, the Bible speaks about a garden in Eden...
”, ” Sorrows before Paradise
Paradise
Paradise is a place in which existence is positive, harmonious and timeless. It is conceptually a counter-image of the miseries of human civilization, and in paradise there is only peace, prosperity, and happiness. Paradise is a place of contentment, but it is not necessarily a land of luxury and...
” and ”Heaven
Heaven
Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious cosmological or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings originate, are enthroned or inhabit...
and Hell
Hell
In many religious traditions, a hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as endless. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations...
” and of his mythological figure paintings from the greek mythology
Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
in ”Siren
Siren
In Greek mythology, the Sirens were three dangerous mermaid like creatures, portrayed as seductresses who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. Roman poets placed them on an island called Sirenum scopuli...
” (1934). Wallin executed many figurative art
Figurative art
Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork—particularly paintings and sculptures—which are clearly derived from real object sources, and are therefore by definition representational.-Definition:...
works and landscape art
Landscape art
Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...
works in a quasi-symbolist style.
Exhibitions, membership and prices
- Exhibitions by Swedish-American artists at the Swedish Club of Chicago in Chicago. Wallin exhibited during the years 1913-1964.
- Art Institute of ChicagoArt Institute of ChicagoThe School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
in Chicago. Wallin entered the national shows in many annual exhibitions of the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), for instance in “American Painters of Swedish Descent 1920, Exhibiting under the auspices of The Art Institute of Chicago, November 16–30, 1920”, with the oilpainting “Evening”, number 99 in the catalog. - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsPennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsThe Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1805 and is the oldest art museum and school in the United States. The academy's museum is internationally known for its collections of 19th and 20th century American paintings,...
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Student (SAIC).
- Swedish-American Exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden, 1920.
- Swedish-American Exhibition, University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
- Swedish-American Exhibition in Gothenburg Jubilee of 1923, Sweden, May 8 – September 30, 1923, in Göteborgs Konsthall, built for the jubilee fair of Gothenburg 300 Years.
- An Exhibition of Religious Art by Artists of Chicago and Environs. Carl E. Wallin participated in the exhibition with his oil painting, “Gethsemane”, March 24 - April 15, 1931, at The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Exhibitions.
Membership
Carl E. Wallin was a member of the following associations:
Swedish American Art Association, Chicago Galleries Association, Chicago, All-Illinois Society of Fine Art, Chicago and The Swedish Club of Chicago.
Prices
He won several prices and he also received many awards and honors at the Swedish-American exhibitions. Carl E. Wallin exhibited in Sweden at the 1920 Swedish-American touring exhibition in Stockholm. It was a touring exhibition with the 100 best works, which was completed during the last 10 years of Swedish-American artists and the exhibition was opened in Stockholm on June 6, 1920. “At an art exhibition at the Swedish club’s building in Chicago the painter Carl E. Wallin was awarded first price for an oilpainting, and which amount came to $100 and had been donated by the State Bank of Chicago
State Bank of Chicago
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. The price awarded work was “Evening Fantasy” and it had been brought up as number 107 in the catalog for the exhibition”, according to a Chicago newspaper in the 1920s.
Collection of Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt
Sweden maintained an almost maternal relationship to its emigrant artists during the period of heaviest emigration to America, 1880-1920. The emigrant artists were included in dictionaries on equal footing with those artists who remained in Sweden.
A number of paintings in the collection of Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt appear to have come from the 1929 exhibition of “Swedish-American Artists Given Under the Auspices of the Swedish American Art Association” at Illinois Women’s Athletic club, March 10–17, 1929. Although the catalog does not give measurement, several titles correlate with the collection in Gothenburg. For example Carl. E. Wallin’s paintining “Icebound”, listed in the 1929 catalog for the Chicago exhibition, could possibly be the collection’s painting “Fjällets Själ”, (“Mountain Face”), a winter mountainous landscape in which a nude painted in shades of white and grey, is encased in snow on the face of the steep mountain peak. Wallin’s painting from the 1928 exhibition, “Fantasy in Frost” has a title that also correlates with the subject matter of the work in the collection. His mystical landscapes were shown in several Swedish-American art exhibitions during the 1920s and his work is in the collection of Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt.
Exhibitions at The Swedish Club of Chicago
Carl E. Wallin exhibited at the Exhibitions by Swedish-American artists at the Swedish Club of Chicago during the years 1913-1964 with the following oil paintings. The list is compiled from the catalogs in the collection of The Swedish Club of Chicago. The exhibition year is in between the bracklets.”Portrait of Carl Wallin” (1913) (this is a self-portrait), ”Portrait of Mrs. Nickelson” (1913), ”Sunlight” (1913), ”Winter Day” (1916), ”Mrs. Wallin – Portrait” (1917), ”A Study” (1918), ”Martha” (1918), ”Just After Sunset” (1919), ”Violet” (1919), ”Bernhardina” (1924), ”Evening” (1924), ”Sunset” (1924), ”Aged” (1925), ”Evening Fantasy”(1925) (the oilpainting ”Evening Fantasy” won first price at the exhibition in Chicago, exhibited in 1925), ”Night Fantasy” (1925), ”Summernight in Sweden” (1925), ”Dreams” (1926), ”Earthbound” (1926), ”Summer” (1926), ”Cloud Fantasy” (1937) (Compare: ”Evening Fantasy”, exhibited in 1925 and “Frost Fantasy”, exhibited in 1941 and 1946), ”Frost Maidens at Work” (1947), ”Frost Maidens at Work” (1941, again), ”Snowbound” (1941), ”Frost Fantasy” (1946), ”River in Winter” (1947), ”Snow and Ice” (1948), ”Winter” (1949–1950) (the original is now in the ownership of the city of Gothenburg), ”Earth Bound” (1951), ”Frost” (1955), ”Hilma” (1957), ”Fantasy” (1959), ”Ice Grotto”, (1961), ”Mountain Genius”, (1964) The oilpainting "Mountain Genius" (1931) is now represented in: Utlandssvenska museet in Gothenburg. Some other of Wallin’s paintings, not exhibited, were ”Winter scene with creek and distant mountains” and ”Lonely Rower”.
Represented
Carl E. Wallin is represented in Utlandssvenska museet in Gothenburg, “Mountain Genius” (1931), Exhibited in the Exhibitions by Swedish-American Artists at the Swedish Club of Chicago in 1964, and in the collections of Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt (earlier Riksföreningen för svenskhetens bevarande i utlandet), with the oilpainting “Mountain’s Soul” (1928).Sources
- ”Svenskt Konstnärslexikon”, (Who is who in Swedish art), Volyme 5, page 577, Allhems Förlag AB, Malmö, 1967, author Otto Robert Landelius. Swedish artist’s lexicon is an anthology of Swedish artists and art history that was published in five volumes of Allhems Förlag AB, Malmö, 1952–1967.
- Carl E. Wallin in Konstnärslexikonett Amanda.
- Svenska Konstnärer, Biografisk handbok, VäBo Förlag, Vänersborg, 1993, page 549.
- Carl Efraim Wallin in Vem är det, Svensk biografisk handbok 1933, page 884..
- National Library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket) in StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, accession number ACC2008_024, under Brev 2008/24:1, ACC2008_024 The Archive of the Family Wallin. - Carl E. Wallin in Mary T. Swanson papers, 1970–2000, Box 3, Number 26, Augustana University, Mary T. Swanson papers, 1970-2000.
Other sources
- Carl E. Wallin listed in Swedish-American Archives of Greater Chicago, Manuscript Collection #35, 91 pages. Exhibitions by Swedish-American Artists at the Swedish Club of Chicago, 1911-1982. Wallin listed in the pages 3–91. This list is compiled from the Northpark University, Chicago.Carl E. Wallin in Ebookpedia
- Lists compiled from catalog in collection. In 1949-1950 Carl E. Wallin exhibited his oilpainting ”Winter” at the Exhibitions by Swedish-American artists at the Swedish Club of Chicago.
- Carl E. Wallin was a member of the Swedish Club of Chicago and he regularly exhibited at the Exhibitions by Swedish-American Artists at the Swedish Club of Chicago, here listed from 1911-1982 by Swedish-American Artists of Greater Chicago Manuscript Collection #35. http://www.northpark.edu/Brandel-Library/Archives/Swedish-American-Archives-of-Greater-Chicago/~/media/Files/PDF/Brandel%20Library/Archives/MSS%20finding%20aids%20SAAGC/SAAGC%20MSS%2035%20Exhibitions%20by%20Swedish-American%20Artists%20at%20the%20Swedish%20Club%20with%20list%20by%20artist.ashxExhibitions by Swedish-American Artists at the Swedish Club of Chicago, 1911-1982, Manuscript Collection #35.]
- Carl E. Wallin listed in “American Painters of Swedish Descent, Exhibiting under the auspices of The Art Institute of Chicago, November 16–30, 1920”, with the oilpainting “Evening”, number 99 in the catalog. American Painters of Swedish Descent
- Carl E. Wallin is listed in Illinois Historical Art Project, List of Illinois Artists.Carl E. Wallin in Illinois Historical Art Project
- Carl E. Wallin on page 15. A Tangled Web; Swedish Immigrant Artists’ Patronage Systems, 1880–1940, Mary Swanson, 2004. Swedish Immigrant Artists' Patronage Systems
- Exhibitions by Swedish-American artists at the Swedish Club of Chicago (Svenska klubben i Chicago). A portrait of Mr. Carl Wallin, ”Carl Wallin” by the Swedish-American artist Martin Lundgren (born 1871 in Sweden) in the exhibition of 1913. Martin Lundgren on page 9, A Tangled Web; Swedish Immigrant Artists’ Patronage Systems, 1880–1940, Mary Swanson, 2004. Swedish Immigrant Artists' Patronage Systems
- Carl E. Wallin, "Winter landscape", Oil on Board, signed lower left, 22"x30" in Jackson's Auction in November 2002.
- Carl E. Wallin, "Colorado winter", 1945, Signed Carl E. Wallin, Oil on Canvas, 38 x 48 in. / 96.5 x 121.9 cm in Artnet. Sale Of Treadway/Toomey: Sunday, May 23, 1999, Lot 481, 20th c. Auction: Art & Design.
- Carl E. Wallin, "Siren, 1934, Signed Carl E. Wallin, Oil on Board, 22 x 16 in. / 55.9 x 40.6 cm, in Artnet. Sale Of Teadway/Toomey: Sunday, September 7, 2003, Lot 674, 20th Century Art and Design Auction.
- Carl E. Wallin in Auction Price Results, Invaluable, Catalog, Search Lots
Other links
- Collections in The Art Institute of Chicago. Collections in The Art Institute of Chicago
- Exhibition History of The Art Institute of Chicago. Exhibition History of The Art Institute of Chicago.
- A Tangled Web:Swedish Immigrant Artists Patronage Systems, 1880–1940, By Mary Towley Swanson, PhD, Mary Towley Swanson, 2004, Annotated Table of Contents, File 6: Diverse American Systems of Patronage Provide Broad Support (pdf-file). Swedish Immigrant Artists Patronage Systems, File 6
- A Tangled Web:Swedish Immigrant Artists Patronage Systems, 1880–1940, By Mary Towley Swanson, PhD, Mary Towley Swanson, 2004, Annotated Table of Contents, File 7: Swedish Patronage Networks Encourage Artists Careers and Ethnic Collections (pdf-file). Swedish Immigrant Artists Patronage Systems, File 7
- Appendix C: Swedish American Artists Index (Biographies of Swedish-American artists) (pdf-file). Swedish American Artists Index