B. J. O. Nordfeldt: American Internationalist

$39.95 at New Mexico Museum of Art.

This “painter’s painter” constantly explored the variety of American modernist art, inspired by many locations and artistic styles  B. J. O. Nordfeldt was described by a Minneapolis art critic in 1935 as a “painter’s painter,” and his prolific career evinced constant experimentation with subjects, genres, and media of modernist art. The Swedish emigrant lived throughout the world—from his early training and teaching in Chicago to the dynamic art scenes of Paris and New York to popular American art colonies in…