Editing Carl Oscar Borg

{{Short description|Swedish-American painter}}
[[File:Carl Borg.jpg|thumb|Carl Borg]]

'''Carl Oscar (or Oskar) Borg''' (March 3, 1879 – May 8, 1947) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]]-born painter who settled in the [[United States]] and became known for views of California and the [[Southwestern United States|SouthWest]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.medicinemangallery.com/bio/carloscarborg.lasso|title=Carl Oscar Borg (1879-1947)|author=Mark Sublette|website=Medicine Man Gallery|access-date=25 August 2017}}</ref>

==Biography==

Carl Oscar Borg was born into a poor family in Grinstad parish, [[Dalsland]] province, [[Sweden]]. Oscar Borg moved to [[London]] at age 15 to assist portrait and marine artist George Johansen. In 1901, he sailed for the United States. Borg taught art at the [[The Art Institute of California – Los Angeles|California Art Institute]] in Los Angeles and at the [[Santa Barbara School of the Arts]]. He became a  protégé of American philanthropist and art patron [[Phoebe Hearst]]. She gave him the opportunity to return to Europe to study art.

Borg was influenced by the nature of the southwestern United States, especially the states of [[Arizona]] and [[New Mexico]].  He worked  in various mediums including oil, watercolor, etchings, and woodblock. He was commissioned to paint posters for the railway company, [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]]. His posters were put up on the company's sales offices and attracted attention. He was known for his dramatic paintings of the [[Grand Canyon]].<ref>[http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa414.htm ''Carl Oscar Borg, Artist of the American West''(Marlene R. Miller)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117052816/http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa414.htm |date=January 17, 2010 }}</ref>

Borg was a founding member of the Painter's Club of Los Angeles and the [[California Art Club]]. He was one of the first  art directors  for a major movie studio in Hollywood. He worked with the production of silent films in the years 1925–1928.  Examples of his art are on display at [[Brigham Young University]], [[Harvard University]], [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]] and the [[Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]].<ref>[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/borg_carl_oscar.html ''Carl Oscar Borg'' (John Malyon/Specifica, Inc.)]</ref> A substantial collection of his paintings and prints, as well as large parts of his personal collection were given to the [[Museum of World Culture|Världskulturmuseet]] in Gothenburg and [[Museum of Ethnography, Sweden|Etnografiska museet]] in Stockholm, both branches of the Statens museer för världskultur (National Museums of World Culture) in Sweden as gifts during his lifetime and by his widow.

His work was also part of the [[Art competitions at the 1936 Summer Olympics#Painting|painting event]] in the [[Art competitions at the 1936 Summer Olympics|art competition]] at the [[1936 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/921458 |title=Carl Oscar Borg |work=Olympedia |accessdate=14 August 2020}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Borg was married to Lily Borg Elmberg. He was a member of the [[National Academy of Design]], the [[National Academy of Arts]], [[Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts]]  and the [[Salmagundi Club]].

==Selected works==
*''The Great Southwest Etchings''   (1936)

==References==
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==Other sources==
*Widén, Albin  ''Carl Oscar Borg; Ett Konstnarsode '' (Nordisk Rotogravyr. 1953)
*Laird, Helen ''Carl Oscar Borg and the Magic Region: Artist of the American West'' (Peregrine Smith Books. 1986)
*Schulz, Marlene R. ''Carl Oscar Borg: California Images''  (Santa Barbara Historical Society.  1990)
*Cuba, Stanley L. ''Carl Oscar Borg, Chronicler of the Southwest''  (Western Art Digest. 1986)

==External links==
*[http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/findingaids/index.cfm/fuseaction/Collections.ViewCollection/CollectionID/6185 Carl Oscar Borg scrapbooks at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110427230055/http://www.carloscarborggallery.com/index.html Carl Oscar Borg Artist and Gallery web site]
*[http://www.artsignaturedictionary.com/artist.php?id=1749 Art Signature Dictionary, genuine signature by the artist Carl Oscar Borg] Here are several examples of Carl Oscar Borg's signature.

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