Richard Williamson

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Gustav Olof (All) Hjortzberg
(Swedish painter 1872-1959)

Still life with flowers, 1940.

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Bruno Andreas Liljefors 1860-1939 Swedish Nature & animal motifs, esp dramatic situations. The most influential Swedish wildlife painter. Also drew sequential picture stories, making him an early Swedish comic creators

"Talgoxar" (1882) Oil On Canvas

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Garçon sur la plage (Kalle) circa 1901
Watercolor

Maria Catharina Wiik (3 August 1853 – 19 June 1928) was a Finnish painter. She worked principally with still life, genre images, landscape paintings and portraits.

The German equivalent to the Swedish word “Midsommar” is “Mittsommer.”
Swedish: Midsommar
German: Mittsommer
English: Midsummer

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Inge Löök - Finnish Illustrator 1951 -
“The Merry Aunties “

“I couldn’t understand why 2 old aunties became so cherished. I prefer to explore the inner world as opposed to their outer shell; to stay in the small moments which they share so well”-Inge Löök

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Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920)

Martha Dana 1899
Oil on canvas

Søren Martinsen is a contemporary Danish artist acclaimed for his psychologically resonant landscapes that interrogate the boundaries between nature, artifice, and perception. Against the Light exemplifies his mature practice. Rendered in a palette of softened ochres, violets, and pale celestials, the composition presents a rural Danish scene bathed in the low, direct radiance of the sun. Silhouetted barns and skeletal trees stand against a luminous sky, while a crimson-brown path stretches from the viewer’s space toward the horizon, drawing the eye toward both the central light source and its surrounding shadows. Though rooted in figurative representation, Martinsen’s landscape is anything but literal. He often begins with photographic references—frequently sourced from digital platforms like Google Earth—and reconstructs them using thin washes of acrylic and translucent oil glazes. The result is an atmospheric ambiguity that destabilizes conventional readings of place, time, and light. The painting’s title, Against the Light, is both descriptive and philosophical. By orienting the viewer into the glare, Martinsen challenges the pictorial traditions of landscape painting, wherein light typically serves to illuminate and clarify. Here, light becomes a screen, a kind of veil that flattens form and deepens mystery. It evokes not a landscape we move through, but one we contemplate—and project upon—from a psychological remove. In this way, Against the Light invites more than aesthetic admiration. It asks viewers to reflect on the act of looking itself: how landscapes are not only seen but constructed through memory, technology, and cultural longing.

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Søren Martinsen (Danish, b. 1966)

Against the Light, 2010
Acrylic and oil on canvas
160 × 140 cm
Private collection

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Elin Danielson-Gambogi (1861-1919) Finnish painter best known for her realist works and portraits.

"On the Way Home in the Evening Light" c.1909. Oil on canvas.

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Elsa Beskow (1874 – 1953) Swedish author/illustrator of children's books. Among her better known books are Tale of the Little Little Old Woman & Aunt Green, Aunt Brown & Aunt Lavender.

Because trump’s policy, designed by Stephen Miller, is predicated on the white supremacist “Great Replacement Theory” with the goal to remove all non white residents, legal or not, criminal or not, so that only white Americans remsin

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Akseli Gallen-Kallela

( 1865 - 1931 ) Finnish painter

"The Girl and the Rooster" oil on canvas 25 x 29,5 cm, 1886

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Delighting person whom propably everyone likes, 2025

Jussi Vaarala. Finnish. b. 1954

Likes to do emotionally expressive impro portraits.

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Carl Larsson (1853-1919) Swedish painter.

"Esjborn With His Sailboat" c.1907. Watercolour.

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Fanny Brate 1861-1940 Sweden

"On the Bridge" (1894)
Oil on Canvas

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Laurits Tuxen (1853 -1927) Danish painter and sculptor.

"Seaside Life on Skagen Beach in the Midday Sun" c.1909. Oil on canvas.

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Jan Lööf (born 30 May 1940) is a Swedish illustrator, author, comic creator, and jazz musician

His most famous comic strip Felix, gained popularity. Mixing humor and adventure, sometimes described as a more naivistic or underground style version of Tintin

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Of course….yes, of course…fire the guy who reports facts that we don’t like….

My only surprise is that Trump didn’t have the guy “fired at” by a firing squad

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Friday Finnish!

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finnish, 1865-1931)

Myrsky Ruovedellä / Storm at Ruovesi (1909)
Oil on canvas
Gallen-Kallela Museum

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Just a lively way glad guy, 2025

Jussi Vaarala, Finnish, b1954

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Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finnish, 1865-1931)

"Spring Night" (1914)
oil on canvas (115.5 x 115.6 cm)
Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway.

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Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finnish, 1865‑1931),

A wild marshland beyond the north wind, 1905, Oil on canvas, 67 x 77 cm.

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Helene Schjerfbeck

( 1862 - 1946 ) Finnish painter

"Lullaby" oil on canvas 62 x 49,5 cm, 1893

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Lena Christine Anderson 1939- Swedish children's book author/illustrator.

50 children's books. Long-collaboration w/Christina Björk , books about Storm-Stina , & Linnea (incl Linnea in the painter's garden (Claude Monet ) & about Maja , incl Maja's alphabet

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Inge Löök - Finnish Illustrator 1951 -
“The Merry Aunties “

“I couldn’t understand why 2 old aunties became so cherished. I prefer to explore the inner world as opposed to their outer shell; to stay in the small moments which they share so well”-Inge Löök

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“Sunlit Skogsbäck”
Oil on canvas 145 x 100 cm
Created;1908

Swedish Painter..Johan Krouthén
(1858 - 1932)

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“An old farm with grandmother and
granddaughter in a door”
Oil on canvas 64 x 52 cm
Created;1919

Danish Painter.. Peder Mørk Mønsted
(1859 - 1941)

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Frits Thaulow (Christiania, 20 October 1847 – Volendam, 5 November 1906) was a Norwegian Impressionist painter.

Horses Watering At The Bridge At Montreuil Sur Mer, 1892

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Prince Eugen of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Närke (Eugen Napoleon Nicolaus; 1 August 1865 – 17 August 1947) was a Swedish painter, art collector, and patron of artists.

Det lugna vattnet
~ Calm Water
by Prins Eugen, 1901
Oil on canvas
142 cm x 178 cm

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Hans Dahl (1849-1937) Norwegian painter.

Im Hochsommer, Westnorwegan - In the Midsummer, West Norway. undated. Oil on canvas.

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Pettson and Findus

Sven Nordqvist-1946 is a Swedish writer/illustrator of children's books, best known for his series Pettson and Findus, about the old farmer Pettson and his talented cat Findus. He is also active as a comic artist