Background
Carlson, John Fabian was born on May 4, 1875 in Province of Smaland, Sweden. Son of Carl Wilhelm Theodore and Clara Mathilda (Fridorf) Carlson.
Carlson, John Fabian was born on May 4, 1875 in Province of Smaland, Sweden. Son of Carl Wilhelm Theodore and Clara Mathilda (Fridorf) Carlson.
Came to America, 1886. Educational public schools, Art Students’ League, Buffalo and New New York
Was head instructor landscape painting, Art Students’ League, New New York Represented in Corcoran Gallery, Washington, Toledo (O.) Museum, Oberlin (O.) Collection, Dallas (Texas) Public Art Gallery, Brooks Memorial Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee. Lincoln (Nebraska) Art Society Collection. Randolph Macon Women's College Collection, Lynchburg, Virginia.
Baltimore Museum of Fine Arts, Baltimore, Maryland.
Montclair Museum of Fine Arts, Montclair, New Jersey. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Silver medal, Society Washington Artists, 1913. First Isidor prize and Vezin prize, both Salmagundi Club, 1912.
First prize, Swedish-American exhibition, Chicago, 1911, 13.
Silver medal, San Francisco Exposition, 1915. Carnegie prize, National Academy, 1918. Shaw water-color prize, Salmagundi Club, 1923.
Ranger Fund purchase prize, National Academy, 1923.
Isidor prize, American Oil Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, 1925. Medal of award, Montclair (New Jersey) Art Museum, 1933.
First Altman prize, National Academy, 1936. Founder John F. Carlson School of Landscape Painting, Woodstock, 1923.
Member of advisory board (art) Oberlin College. Member American Water Color Society, New York Water Color. Clubs: Salmagundi, National Arts (life).
Married Margaret Goddard, April. Children: David, Robert Eric, Peter Worth.