Carl Sprinchorn, born in Sweden, came to the United States as a young man and at the age of 16 became a student of Robert Henri in New York City, first at the New York School of Art, later at the Henri school. Sprinchorn taught at the Art Students League of Los Angeles in 1912-1913, and then went to Europe where he painted and attended sketch classes at the Académie Colarossi in Paris.  

On his return to America, Sprinchorn began to exhibit widely. He was represented in the groundbreaking Armory Show in New York City in 1913, and also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, Carnegie Museum, and elsewhere. In 1916, he had his first one-man show of drawings in New York organized by dealer George S. Hellman, and a second a year later at Knoedler’s. His work was shown at the Marie Sterner Gallery, Frank Rehm Gallery, and Macbeth Galleries in New York City. From 1923 to 1925, he was the art director of The New Gallery on Madison Avenue where he arranged exhibitions of works both by young American artists and the European masters: Matisse, Modigliani, and Cezanne. In the 1920s, Sprinchorn first lived among the woodsmen and farmers in a small Swedish-American settlement in Maine and painted many scenes inspired by this landscape and the people who worked and lived in it.  

His work is found in a number of museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of the City of New York; Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Dayton Art Institute; High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and many others.  

 

Carl Sprinchorn  1887-1971
Young Man Reading
Lead pencil on cream wove paper
Signed and dated in pen & ink, lower right: "Carl Sprinchorn, 1925"
Sheet size: 8 1/2 X 11 1/4 inches
Frame size: 14 1/8 X 16 7/8 inches
In a handcrafted frame from Les Cadres RG, Paris
FC08079 Price on request

 
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