Inside Sandzen Fall 2009

INSIDE SANDZÉN
This feature, highlighting a discovery relating to Sandzén from the archives, will be periodically updated on the website and is planned for each issue of Gallery Notes.

An Addition for the Fall 2009 "Inside Sandzén" Website

A major review of the Exhibition files in the Archives this last summer revealed that the exhibition catalogues were intermixed with original printed materials about and even by Birger Sandzén. These have now been removed and are being filed separately and chronologically.

The following slightly abridged bibliography lists the earliest materials in this collection and is presented here because of its general interest for the dates, the works by Sandzén himself and the journals in which articles about him appeared.

Sandzén, Birger Sandzén.	"The technique of Painting." Fine Arts Journal 32.1 (January 1915): 22- 27. Four art reproductions. Advice about the field of art in general, and particularly about oil painting.
	"The Southwest as a Sketching Ground." Fine Arts Journal 33.2 (August 1915): 334-351. Handwritten notes in margins by Sandzén. Notable for Sandzén's enthusiasm for "our country" and the Southwest and for its instructions about landscapes. Two reproductions of his works; also reproductions of works by Henry Varnum Poor; twenty-four art reproductions in all.
Marsh, Mary E.	"Birger Sandzén Sandzén." American-Scandinavian Review 4.3 (May/June 1916): 172-77. Five art reproductions; one photo. A brief biography of the author, a former student of Sandzén's, is found on p. 133.
Sandzén, Birger Sandzén.	"En Renaissance." God Jul: Illustrerad Jultidning for Svenskarna i America. I. Rock Island, IL: Augustana Book Concern, 1916. Cive unpaginated pages, with six large reproductions of Sandzén lithographs in this, his first year of making lithographs. The work, in Swedish, seems to be concerned with the history of lithography.
Anonymous and Mary E. Marsh.	"Birger Sandzén: Painter and Lithographer." American Magazine of Art, 8.4 (February 1917): 148-153. Four lithograph reproductions. Although much of the article is comprised of quotes from Mary Marsh's 1916 article in American Scandinavian Review, the title, anonymous material, and reproductions also concern his latest medium, lithography.
Marsh, Mary E.	"The Work of Birger Sandzén." The International Studio, 69.275 (January/February 1920): xcix-cii. Four art reproductions.

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Extensive excerpts pf the first two works in the bibliography (above) may be found in the "Inside Sandzén" column in the Fall of 2009 issue of Gallery Notes, distributed to all Sandzén Gallery members.