He's like a cowboy in Swedish art history—Carl Oscar Borg. Born the son of a soldier in Grinstad Parish in 1879, he left this world 68 years later in Santa Barbara, California, as "the white brother and artistic chronicler of the Hopi and Navajo Indians." A remarkable life story.
At 15, he traveled to Paris but soon moved to London before setting sail for the United States as a sailor in the second year of the new century. There, he was discovered as an artist, and one thing led to another until he found work as an art director in the film industry.
At Stockholms Auktionsverk Göteborg, we meet him as a painter and printmaker. Expect plenty of Wild West scenes, but also a depiction of the Finnish Winter War and a few portrait studies.
