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Anders G. Aldrin (1889–1970) was an Swedish born American artist, active from 1926 to 1970. The majority of this work was in painting, watercolors and wood block prints. He immigrated to the United States in 1911. He joined the Army in 1917 and served in France. After recovering from Tuberculosis in Arizona, he entered Otis Art School in 1923. Respected by critics and artists alike, he chose an independent path for his work not wanting to be tied to a style or movement (although this did limit sales and exposure). But he can easily be placed as a member of the California Scene Painting artists, as he preferred to work out in nature. His work can be found in a number of museums, including the ____.

Millard Sheets was an American artist, teacher and administrator who was one of the earliest of the California Scene Painting artists. Many of his large-scale building-mounted mosaics from the mid-20th century are still extant in Southern California.

Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism. He had no formal artistic training, but his experimental attitude toward the making of art resulted in his invention of frottage—a technique that uses pencil rubbings of objects as a source of images—and grattage, an analogous technique in which paint is scraped across canvas to reveal the imprints of the objects placed beneath. He is also noted for his novels consisting of collages.

French Wiki:  Anders G. Aldrin, born on August 29 , 1889in Stjernsfors in Värmland in Sweden and died in 1970 , is an American wood engraver and watercolor painter of Swedish origin, both landscape and portrait painter. He started his artistic career late and devoted himself to it with an approach independent of any school, current or artistic style of his time.

In 1923 he left Prescott with his family and went to California to study art, first at the Otis Art Institute until 1927, then, from 1927 to 1930, at the school of fine arts in Santa Barbara, where Frank Morley Fletcher (en) introduced him to the technique of colored wood engraving from Japan. He also attended additional training in 1929 at the School of Fine Arts in San Francisco.

Based in Los Angeles, he devoted himself mainly between 1928 and 1937 to colored wood engravings, then to watercolor and oil painting. After several local exhibitions, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art devoted an exhibition to him in 1935. Several other exhibitions were devoted to him during his lifetime:

in 1940 at the Jake Zeitlin bookstore in Los Angeles and at Scripps College in Claremont in 1948 at the Pasadena Art Institute in 1958 at Mount St. Mary's College] in Westwood. He also exhibited frequently at the California Water Color Society show between 1927 and 1960.

In the 1940s, he visited Oregon, Rhode Island , Massachusetts and Connecticut and painted landscapes from life there. He also went to Värmland, his native region, in 1951, 1952, 1962 and 1968, where he produced a large number of landscapes. In 1957, he went to Japan, where his daughter Betty lived, and also visited Hong Kong , Thailand , Wake and Hawaii. From this six-month trip to the East and the Pacific, he brings back numerous landscapes. In the 1960s, he abandoned painting outdoors to devote himself to less emotional and more intellectual workshop work.

He was the friend of the painter John Dominique and was appreciated by the painter Millard Sheets (in) and the art critic Arthur Millier, who considered him as one of the finest Californian painters of the years 1940-1960.

His work has been awarded several times and his works can be admired in several large collections such as the Library of Congress in Washington, the Library of Boston or Rutgers University in Newark (New Jersey).

The works of Anders Aldrin are high in color and brightness, of a solid construction and free from all imitation. The artist has in fact always kept his independence from the styles and manners of his contemporaries. Its production spring intense poetry reminiscent of a romantic enriched experiences japonistes and expressionism of the late xix th century and beginning of the xx th  century.