Background
Borg, Carl Oscar was born on March 3, 1879 in Grinstad, Sweden. Son of Gustaf and Kristina (Borg) Borg.
Borg, Carl Oscar was born on March 3, 1879 in Grinstad, Sweden. Son of Gustaf and Kristina (Borg) Borg.
Educational public schools, Sweden.
Came to the United States 1901. Self-taught in art, has painted in Central and South. America, Spain, Morocco, Valley of the Nile and Italy. Specializes in desert and Indian subjects.
First prize, Painters’ Club, Los Angeles, California, 1909.
Honorable mention, Vichy, 1913. Silver medal, Versailles, 1914, San Diego, 1915, San Francisco Exposition, 1915.
Gold medal, San Diego Exposition, 1916. 1st prize, Phoenix, Arizona, 1916.
2d Black prize, Los Angeles, 1918.
Maybury prize, Los Angeles, 1920. Silver medal, Societe des Artistes Français, 1920. Honorable mention California Water Color Society, 1923.
Huntington prize, California Art Club, 1923.
2d prize, Painters of the West, Los Angeles, 1924, gold medal, Painters of the West, 1928. Silver medal, Long Beach, California, 1928.
1st prize, Sacramento, California, 1929. Elizabeth Fisher prize, Ebell Club, Los Angeles, 1930.
Honorable mention Laguna Beach Art Association, 1935.
The Linne Medal, Royal Academy of Science (Stockholm, Sweden), 1945. Represented in University of California, municipal collection Phoenix, Arizona, Los Angeles Museum, California State Library, Sacramento, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, Los Angeles Public Library, Hearst Free Library, Anaconda, Mills College, California, Oakland Museum, Milwaukee The Art Institute of Chicago, Montclair (New Jersey) Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France, Gothenburg (Sweden) Museum, University of Lund (Sweden). Vänersborg’s Museum (Sweden).
National Museum, Statens Etnografiska Museum, Royal Library (Stockholm).
American Swedish History Museum, Philadelphia.
Member American Federation Arts, San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Society Etchers, California Watercolor Society, Print-Makers Society of California, Laguna Beach, Art Association, American Artists Professional League, Sociète Internationale des Beaux Arts et des Lettres (Paris). Associate National Academy, 1938. Member Sociedade de Geographia, Lisbon, Portugal.
Clubs: California Art, Salmagundi (New York).
Married Madeline Carriel, August 15, 1918 (divorced August 18, 1937). Married second, Anna Lilly Lindstrand, October 3, 1938.