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CARL SPRINCHORN (1887-1971) The Pink Tree.
Oil on canvas, 1941. 627x755 mm; 25x30 inches. Signed lower right and titled verso.
Provenance Pensler Galleries, Washington, DC. Private Collection, New York. Tom Veilleux Gallery, Portland, Maine. Acquired from the above by current owner, Connecticut, 2001.
Exhibited "Carl Sprinchorn," American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, May 3-September 15, 1942, number 21 (illustrated). "Paintings by Sprinchorn," Macbeth Gallery, New York, January 4-January 23, 1943, number 28 (illustrated). "Carl Sprinchorn: King of the Woods," Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, June 7-August 23, 2002 (label).
Carl Sprinchorn found success in the New York art scene after studying at the New York School of Art under Robert Henri. He first came to Maine in 1919 and found similarities between the North Woods region and his native Sweden. He lived in the area for two years and thereafter summered there in the late 1930's through 1952. His artwork of North-Central Maine depicts the working lumberjacks and woodsmen, their camps, and forests. Works from 1930's and 1940's, like the present painting, are especially saturated with color.
