The Old Mill by Sven Birger Sandzen
The Old Mill
Sven Birger Sandzen
Title
The Old Mill
Artist
Sven Birger Sandzen
1871 - 1954 (biography)Year
1929
Technique
drypoint
Image Size
6 x 7 15/16" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
11 of 40
Annotations
pencil titled and editioned
Reference
Greenough (drypoints) 12
Paper
cream simile-vellum
State
I/I
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
21168
Price
$750.00
Description
Birger Sandzen studied with Anders Zorn in Sweden before moving to the United States and Lindsborg, Kansas. Sandzen captured the landscape of Kansas and the southwest in his many prints and paintings.
This mill, which probably was in Colorado or the Southwest, Sandzen captured in drypoint in 1929, using his active, frenetic line. There are virtually no straight lines in this image. The black shadows are created using the burr from the drypoint.