David McClure

Vintage Scottish Modernist Abstract Kitchen Table Still Life Signed Oil Painting

1957

Antique American school modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

Antique American modernist signed abstract still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.

Abstract Composition French School, 20th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 30 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condition

Signed Lower Right Bror Julius Olsson “B.J.O.” Nordfeldt (1878 - 1955) Bror Julius Olsson was born in Tullstrop, Sweden in 1878. He immigrated to the United States in 1891, later adopting his mother’s maiden name of Nordfeldt. Beginning his art studies at the Art Institute of Chicago where he was chosen to assist fellow artist, Albert Herter, with a large mural project for the McCormick Harvester Company. In 1900, he was sent to Paris by McCormick to help set up the completed mural at the Paris Exposition. While there, he studied briefly at the Academie Julian before traveling to England to study woodblock printmaking under F. Morley Fletcher. Returning to Chicago in 1903, Nordfeldt would spend the next ten years painting mainly figurative works in an academic style similar to that of the Old Masters. By the mid-teens he had developed a bold dramatic modernist style and divided his time between New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. There, he invented the “Provincetown Print...