Background
Nordfeldt, Bror Julius Olsson was born on April 13, 1878 in Sweden. Son of Nels and Ingrid Sofia (Nordfeldt) Olsson.
Nordfeldt, Bror Julius Olsson was born on April 13, 1878 in Sweden. Son of Nels and Ingrid Sofia (Nordfeldt) Olsson.
Came to the United States, 1891. Student The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Academic Julian (Paris), Oxford Extension College (Reading, England).
Taught at Minneapolis School of Art 1933, 1944. Painter, etcher and wood engraver. Exhibited at Salon des Artistes Français and Salon d’Automne, Paris.
Royal Academy London, et cetera
Awarded silver medal International Exposition Milan, Italy, 1906. Silver medal, San Francisco Exposition, 1915.
Bronze medal, Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 1926. Logan medal (for etching) The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, 1926.
First prize International Exhibition of Etchings, Brooklyn Museums, 1928, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, 1928.
Yetter prize (for painting), Denver Art Museum, 1937. Purchase prize, Warchester, Massachusetts, 1937. Bronze Medal, Corcoran Biennial, 1949.
Work in the permanent collection of National Museum Sydney, New South Wales.
National Museum, Christiania, Norway. Bibliothèque d’Art et d’Archeologie, Paris.
Toronto (Canada) Museum. The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago: Toledo Art Museum.
Detroit Museum of Artist
New York Public Library. Museum of New Mexico. Corona Mundi International Art Center, New York City.
U. Oklahoma.
Los Angeles Museum. Minneapolis Institute Artist University of Minnesota.
Denver Art Museum. Art Museum of Wichita, Kansas.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. San Diego (California) Museum.
Also Worcester (Massachusetts), Lincoln (Nebraska) museums, University of Oregon, Rochester (New York) Art Museum, Wilmington (Delaware) Art Association Professor art U. Texas, 1941-1942.
Served as assistant district camoufleur, Southern Pacific District, 1918. Represented in “Fifty Prints of the Year,” 1926-1927, 27-28.
Married Margaret Doolittle, December 29, 1909 (divorced).