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AndersLeonard Zorn

Anders Leonard Zorn was one of Sweden's foremost artists. He obtained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etcher.
Among Zorn's portrait subjects were King Oscar II of Sweden, and three American Presidents, Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt.
At the end of his life, he established the Swedish literary Bellman Prize in 1920.
Zorn was born and raised on his grandparents' farm in Yvraden, a hamlet near the village of Utmeland in the parish of Mora, Dalarna. He studied until the age of twelve in the school at Mora Strand before progressing in the autumn of 1872 to a secondary grammar school in Enköping.
From 1875 to 1880 Zorn studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, where he amazed his teachers with his talent. Members of Stockholm society approached him with commissions. This was how Zorn met his wife, Emma Lamm, early in 1881. Her background was different from Zorn's. Coming from a wealthy Jewish merchant family, she was interested in art and culture. Zorn traveled extensively to London, Paris, the Balkans, Spain, Italy and the United States, becoming an international success as one of the most acclaimed painters of his era. It was primarily his skill as a portrait painter that gained Zorn international acclaim based principally upon his incisive ability to depict the individual character of his model. His subjects included three American Presidents, one of whom was Grover Cleveland in 1899, as well as his wife, along with William H. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. At 29, he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur at the Exposition Universelle 1889 Paris World Fair.
The King of Sweden, King Oscar II , 1898.
The Queen consort of Sweden and Norway, Queen Sophia 1909
The Painter Bruno Liljefors, 1906
William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States 1911
Mr Henry Clay Pierce, a noted financier and oil industry pioneer, 1899
Mrs. Frances Cleveland, the wife of President Grover Cleveland
President Grover Cleveland
Ambassador David Jayne Hill
Mme Ashley, 1920
Lady with fur cape
Mrs. Symons
Mrs Walter Rathbone Bacon
Hugo Resinger holding a fashionable grey Homburg hat, 1907.
Mrs. Potter Palmer
Mrs. Eben Richards
Zorn's art made him wealthy and he was thus able to build up a considerable collection of art. The objects were not only bought in his native country but also during the many travels he made abroad. In their joint will, Anders and Emma Zorn donated their entire holdings to the Swedish State.
Some of his most important works can be seen at the National Museum of Fine Arts (Swedish: Nationalmuseum) in Stockholm. Among them is Midsummer Dance (1897), a depiction of dancers in the evening light of a rural Midsummer's Eve celebration. Other museums holding major works by Zorn include the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Zorn Collections (Swedish:Zornsamlingarna) located in Mora and Garberg, Älvdalen, consist of four museums dedicated to the life and works of Anders Zorn. The main museum - Zornmuseet - was designed by Ragnar Östberg and opened in 1939. Shown there are extensive works of Zorn and his collected art by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, 'The Hovingham Master' (Poussin's follower), Bruno Liljefors, Albert Edelfelt, and Pehr Hilleström.
The Bellman Prize (Bellmanpriset) is a literature prize for "an outstanding Swedish poet", every year awarded by the Swedish Academy. The prize was established by Anders Zorn and his wife Emma in 1920.
In 1886, Anders Zorn and his wife Emma, bought land close to Mora church and here they moved a cottage from his maternal grandfather's farm. When Anders and Emma Zorn decided to return to Sweden after several years abroad, they began to enlarge the cottage. Zorngården was completed in 1910.
Zorngården remains today much as it was at the time of Emma Zorn's death in 1942. It is a fine example of an artist's home from the turn of the century. With inspiration from English and Swedish architecture, it is today an excellent example of the architectural freedom that characterizes the years around 1900.
The main part of Zorngården consists of Zorn's home and a museum with his art, but there are two other museums that also are part of the Zorn Collections. Gammelgården is in the southern part of Mora and consists of some 40 timber houses that Zorn bought to make sure that the old art of building such houses would not be forgotten. Gopsmor, Zorn's refuge when under stress, is in the municipality of Älvdalen and is only open for visitors in July.
Self portrait, undated
Self portrait, 1882
Self Portrait with Model, 1896
Self Portrait with Fur, 1915
Self Portrait with Hat 1907
Self-portrait in red, 1915
Self Portrait with Faun and Nymph (before 1920)
While his early works were often brilliant, luminous watercolors, by 1887 he had switched firmly to oils. Zorn was a prolific artist. He became an international success as one of the most acclaimed portrait painters of his era. His sitters included three American Presidents, nobility, the Swedish king and queen and numerous members of high society. Zorn also painted portraits of family members, friends, and self-portraits. Zorn is also famous for his nude paintings. His fondness of painting full-figured women gave rise to the terms Zorn's kulla or dalakulla, an unmarried woman or girl from Dalecarlia, as the women were called in the local dialect of the region Zorn lived.

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Solbadande flicka

Vallkulla

Reveil, Boulevard Clichy

Mora Marknad

Valsen

gustav vasa

Mrs. Bacon

A Portrait of the Daughters of Ramon Subercasseaux

President Grover Cleveland

Badande kullor i bastun

Karleksnymf

Morakulla I Vinterdrakt

Self Portrait with Faun and Nymph

Les Demoiselles Schwartz

Eldsken

Coquelin Cadet

Vita Liljor

Kuver Maja

Mrs. Potter Palmer

The Battleship Baltimore In Stockholm Harbor

Girl in an Orsa Costume

Frileuse

I Wikstroms Atelje

Utsikt Fran Skeppsholmskajen

Portrait of Fru Lisen Samson, nee Hirsch, Arranging Flowers at a Window

I Ateljen

Emma Zorn, Lasande

Spetssom

Flickan på loftet (Girl in the Loft)

Nude woman arranging her hair

Naken under en gran

Helga

Opal

Natteffekt

Antonin Proust

Ateljéidyll

Le Tub

Portrait of Franz Heiss

mormor

Margit

nymf och faun

Midsummer Dance

Brodbaket

Röd sand

Portrait of Agusta Holzer

Junikväll (Evening in June)

Mrs Frances Cleveland

Mona

Mrs. Symons

Bruden (The Bride)

Self portrait in red

Kitchen maid

Mrs. Symons in Scotland

Kvinna som klär sig

Porträtt av Emma Zorn i Parisateljén

In my Gondola

Female nude

In Werner's row boat

Red Stockings

Wallpaper Factory

Impressions de Londres

Portrait of Mrs. Eben Richards

stockholm

Out

Madame Clara Rikoff

A Fisherman - St. Ives

A Portrait Of Christian De Falbe, With A Saint Bernard At Luton Hoo

Mrs. Walter Bacon

Tinozza[1]

Modersgladje

Portrait of Elizabeth Sherman Cameron

Lisen Lamm

Reflexer

I Sangkammaren

wiliam howard taft

Hins Anders

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Faure

mona

The Schwartz Girls

Ols Maria

Oscar II

Our Daily Bread

Jean Burney

Vart Dagliga Brod

Mr. Thomas Weeler

Emma Zorn

den sonderslagna krukan

Ernest Cassel

Loftsangen

Mrs. Weguelin and her Son

Portrait of a Lady in a Drawing Room

Emma Zorn and Mouche the dog

Gustav V

Emma Lamm i halmhatt

Kulla som räfsar. akvarell (Watercolour).

Ute

Fiskmarknad I St. Ives

I vardinnans tradgard

A Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Faure

Frukost I Det Grona

Hugo Reisinger

Orsakulla i ragaker

A Woman in a Forest

Martha Dana

Kusineria

in top capu

Froknarna Salomon

Kaikroddare

Sommarnoje

Freya

Vågskvalp

A premiere

I sorg.

Portrait Of Edith Palgrave Edward In Her London Residence

PlateVIII

Självporträtt i vargskinnspäls

Italienska gatumusikanter

Landskapsstudie fran Richmond

In the Twilight

Frances Cleveland

Drottning Sophia

Hamburg Harbour

Summer Fun

I Algers Hamn

Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon (Virginia Purdy Barker, 1862 1919)

Mrs. John Crosby Brown (Mary Elizabeth Adams, 1842 1918)

Emma Zorn and Mouche, the dog

Girl from Dalecarlia knitting. Cabbage Margit

Swedish Spanjorska Spanish woman

Lucy Turner Joy

Mrs. Potter Palmer

Margit

The Girl from Älvdalen

Mrs. Howe (nee Deering)

Frieda Schiff, later Mrs. Felix M. Warburg

William Howard Taft

Hins Anders

Midsummer Dance Svenska Midsommardans

Ernest Cassel

Hugo Reisinger

Lace making in Venice

Marie Cohn

Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice

Portrait of Frieda Schiff (1876–1958), Later Mrs. Felix M. Warburg

Français La fille à la cigarette

The Lace Makers

Mona and Karin

Portrait Mrs. Potter Palmer

Portrait of Mme Ashley

Queen Sophia

Mona

Gondola in Front of the Palazzo Barbaro

A Kitchen Maid

Augusta Gran

The Little Brewery

Mora church

Edward R. Bacon (1846 1915)

Christmas Morning Service

In the Port of Hamburg

Mademoiselle Antoinette May

Franz Heiss

Eldsken

Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon

Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice

In Mourning

Emma Zorn reading

The Ice Skater

Dance in Gopsmor

Halsey Cooley Ives

Model Study

Coquelin Cadet

Mrs. Lucy Turner Joy

Boslanders

Martha Liebermann

Hilma Herikson

Halsey Cooley Ives

Old Anne

By the fireplace

Peeling potatoes

John Hay

Joseph Randolph Coolidge

Portrait of Max Liebermann

The Guitar Player

A toast in Idun

The Large Brewery

A Toast (Idun) II

Monsieur (Père) Mauri

Frances Folsom Cleveland

Prince Eugén, Duke of Närke

Henry Clay Pierce

Isabella Gardner (study)

Dr. George Howard Monks

Early

Grover Cleveland

George Peabody Gardner

Victor Rydberg

In the woods Sun

Midsummer's Day Dance

Fishermen at Saint Ives

Painter Alice Miller

Island in Saxviken

Swedish Hemlandstoner Home Tunes

Church folks

PORTRAIT D'ALFRED BEURDELEY FILS (1847 1919)

Ida by the Window

Portrait of a boy

Doorway to the Palazzo Barbaro

Daniel Catlin

George Peabody Gardner

An Irish Girl (also known as Annie)

Mary Hardin

FEMME NUE SE COIFFANT

Midsummer Dance

Model before Picture

Isabella Gardner

Edward R. Bacon

Opal

Elin

Mrs. Weguelin and her Son

Pêcheurs de Saint Yves

The Letter

Self portrait with Model

Gipsy Forge

Prins Carl

Morning

Freya

Model at Shore

Man and Boy in Algiers

Mrs. Morewood

Fish Market in Saint Ives

Madonna