"Pomegranates" Still Life Oil Painting by Anders Aldrin

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This is the kind of work that gives off its own light, so voluptuously warm, so tactile are the colors … more This is the kind of work that gives off its own light, so voluptuously warm, so tactile are the colors and the application of the paint. A gorgeous still life by the Swedish-Californian master.

Oil on canvas 18″ x 24″, in very good condition.

Painter, printmaker; Los Angeles, Calif. Aldrin was born in Sternsfor, Varmland, Sweden. He immigrated to the United States in 1911, first to Chicago before settling in Minneapolis. After WWI, he moved to Prescott, Arizona and then in 1923 to Los Angeles where he stayed until his death in 1970. He attended Otis Art Institute from 1923-1927, Santa Barbara School of the Arts from 1927-1930, and six months at California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in 1929. less