Bidspirit auction | Carl Sprinchorn: Harbor View

Carl Sprinchorn: Harbor View - Carl Sprinchorn (Swedish/ American, 1887 - 1971): Harbor View c. 1920. Crayon on paper, signed in pencil lower right, professionally framed and matted. A landscape painter who combined modernism and realism, Carl Sprinchorn was born in Sweden, and spent much of his life in New York state but is most associated with Maine. Between 1937 and 1952, he lived near Shin Pond in Maine's North Woods, painting the life of Maine lumberjacks, hunters, and river drivers. He was a close friend of Marsden Hartley, whom he met in New York in 1916. They painted in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Ogunquit, Maine, and in 1919, went to California together. They re-met twenty years later when Hartley visited the North Woods of Maine.