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Carl Oscar Borg

Carl Oscar Borg (1879 - 1947) was active/lived in California / Sweden.  Carl Borg is known for Western, Indian genre, and landscape painting.

Known for Southwest Indian portraits in various mediums including oil, watercolor, etchings, and woodblock, Carl Oscar Borg was born in Dais-Grinstad, Sweden.

His family was poor, and he was largely self-taught.  He showed early art talent, and as a child copied pictures from books.  At age 15, he apprenticed to a house painter, and at age 20, moved to London and assisted portrait and marine artist George Johansen.

In 1901, he arrived in San Francisco from Sweden, having jumped ship as a seaman on the "S.S. Arizonan." He walked the rail track to Los Angeles, and learned painting techniques from William Wendt, well-known landscape artist.

Sponsored by Phoebe Hearst, mother of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, Borg studied art in Paris and Rome, and with Hearst's encouragement, also painted Indian portraits. He then taught at the California Art Institute in Los Angeles, spent six months in Honduras, and from 1918-24, was an instr   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 29844 characters.]  Artist bio

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