HARVEY D. SANDSTROM "LANGA BREIDAN" FISHING PRINT  PENCIL SIGNED & NO. 31/200

Description : Limited Edition Print 31/200 edition        

Measures : 13 x 19 Sight; 26 x 21 Custom Frame (minor nicks) double mat slight toning inside edges mat; under glass

Signature : Front in plate and pencil signed

Condition: Very Good

Date: CA 1979

Shipping: $18

_{HARVEY D. SANDSTROM
(1925 - 2013)}

_{Harvey Sandstrom ranks high among the wildlife -artists of Minnesota, in a state that is famous for them.}

_{He was born in 1925 in St. Paul, but he and his father often managed to get out of the city to go on camping trips;}

_{they hunted, fished, and added to Harvey's collection of birds' wings, animal skins, claws and other relics that attract boys.}

_{This preoccupation with the outdoors and wildlife naturally led to the drawing of birds and animals, and to taxidermy.}

_{By the time he was 18 years old, World War II was in full swing and he postponed higher education to go into the Navy (from 1943 to 1946 ),}

_{serving in the South Pacific.}

_{After he got out of the Navy, he was taking a walk with his spaniel, Laddie, when he heard cries for help. They were coming from the channel between}

_{Round Lake and Lake Phalen. He promptly investigated and rescued a 13-year-old boy from drowning in the icy waters;}

_{later he was awarded the American Legion Medal for Heroism.}

_{He began his four years of study at the Minneapolis School of Art in 1946. Like many other students and beginning artists,}

_{he took any job that came along during those years: driving trucks, farming, surveying, and so on.}

_{Many of the duck stamp artists have done the same and to a man, they brush such work aside and even call it good experience;}

_{they are usually so single-minded that they can easily ignore the non-art intervals as long as they know they'll get back to artwork eventually.}

_{After graduating from art school in 1950, Mr. Sandstrom free-lanced in Duluth for a while, then opened an art studio with three partners.}

_{He began painting wildlife in earnest and held several one-man art shows. His work was displayed and sold in large sporting goods stores}

_{and galleries in New York, Chicago, and many other places in the East, South, and Midwest.}

_{*Courtesy Russell Fink Gallery}