Carl Sprinchorn

Carl Sprinchorn was born in Sweden and came to New York at the age of sixteen. He immediately began studying under Robert Henri (1865-1925) in the New York School of Art and later in the Henri Art School. From 1912 to 1913 Sprinchorn taught at the Art Students League of Los Angeles, after which he studied in Paris for eight months. In 1916 he had his first one-man show in New York and was well received by critics. However, by 1919 he became interested in the woods of Maine and a deeper connection with nature. Nothing inspired him more than this wilderness and living off the land, and his most powerful works are those he executed in Maine, focusing on men in the woods when the wilderness began disappearing. Although he returned to New York and was director of the New Gallery in New York from 1923 to 1925, from 1937 to 1952 Sprinchorn spent half his time in Maine living amongst woodsmen and farmers.