John F. Carlson

Carlson studied at Académie Colarossi. Training under Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock is recorded. Work by John F. Carlson is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Reading Public Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Phillips Collection and Georgia Museum of Art.

• Name — John F. Carlson • Birth Name — Johan Fabian Carlsson • Born — 5 May 1875 • Birthplace — Ukna, Västerviks kommun, Kalmar län, Sweden • Died — 20 March 1945 • Place of death — New York City, New York, USA • Field — Landscape painting • Years Active — 1906-1945 • Awards — National Academy of Design Andrew Carnegie Prize

Carlson was born on May 5, 1875, in Västervik, Småland, Sweden, the son of Carl Vilhelm Theodor Carlsson and Clara Mathilda Larsdotter Carlsson. In 1889 he moved to Buffalo, NY with his family where he lived until 1901. His formal training began at the Albright School of Art. He studied painting at the Art Students League of Buffalo under Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock, where he won many prizes and a scholarship to the Art Students League of New York. At the Art Students League of New York he studied under Birge Harrison and Frank Vincent DuMond. In 1904, Carlson received a scholarship to study landscape painting at Byrdcliffe Colony with Birge Harrison.

In 1906 Carlson joined Harrison as his assistant in Woodstock. In April 1911 he was elected associate member of the National Academy of Design, becoming a full member in 1925. In June 1911 he began his seven-year tenure as director of the Art Students League Summer School program in landscape at Woodstock, NY, succeeding Birge Harrison. He headed the Broadmoor School of Art in Colorado Springs from 1921 to 1922. In 1923 he returned to Woodstock, NY and founded the John F. Carlson School of Landscape Painting which he led until 1938. He continued to teach at the School of Landscape Painting until his death in 1945.

He married fellow artist Margaret Goddard on April 19, 1913, in Plainfield, NJ. They had three sons. He died at age 69 on March 20, 1945. He passed away in a Manhattan, New York Hospital following a six-week illness, and is buried in Woodstock Artist Cemetery, Woodstock, Ulster County, NY.

• Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio • Baltimore Museum and of Fine Arts, Maryland • Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Kansas • The Butler Art Institute, Ohio • Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah • Brooks Memorial Gallery, Tennessee • Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania • Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. • Dallas Museum of Art, Texas • Dallas Public Library, Texas • Fort Worth Art Association, Texas • Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Georgia • Lincoln Art Association, Nebraska • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York • Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts • National Academy of Design, New York • Oberlin College Collection, Ohio • Randolph-Macon College, Virginia • Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania • Sheldon Museum of Art, Nebraska • Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC • The Parthenon, Tennessee • The Phillips Collection, Washington DC • The San Diego Museum of Art, California • The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio • Virginia Institute of Fine Arts, Virginia • Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Maryland • Woodstock Artists Association Museum, New York