Thorsten Lindberg Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Thorsten Lindberg Art Value Price Guide

Jan. 07, 2024
Thorsten Lindberg (WI,IL,Sweden,1878-1950) watercolor painting
Est: $340 - $425
ARTIST: Thorsten Harold Lindberg (Wisconsin, Illinois, Sweden, 1878 - 1950) NAME: Trumpeters Before Wall, North Africa YEAR: 1940 MEDIUM: watercolor on heavy paper CONDITION: Very good. SIGHT SIZE: 11 x 15 inches / 27 x 38 cm PAPER SIZE: 14 x 14 inches / 35 x 35 cm SIGNATURE: lower left CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 122875 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Lindberg was born January 13, 1878 in Stockholm, Sweden. Although he studied art at the Royal Academy in Stockholm and studied architectural drafting and design at the Stockholm School of Applied Arts, he was mostly a self-taught artist. He immigrated to the United States in 1900 and worked several years as an advertising art director at a commercial art and sign company in Chicago. In 1905 Lindberg met, courted, and married Alma Esser.Lindberg then resided in Minneapolis for two years before coming to Milwaukee in 1911. From 1911 to 1915 Lindberg was employed as an artist for the Meyer-Rotier Company, a local printing and binding firm.Lindberg then returned to Minnesota, where he was an instructor in the Fine Arts Department of the University of Minnesota. He left teaching and moved to Omaha, Nebraska to work for a large printing company, the Acorn Press. In 1933 Lindberg moved again to Milwaukee, where he stayed until his death from cancer on September 22, 1949. His wife, who was ill at the time of Lindberg’s death, died 10 weeks later, also from cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Oct. 08, 2023
Thorsten Lindberg (WI,IL,Sweden,1878-1950) watercolor painting
Est: $360 - $450
ARTIST: Thorsten Harold Lindberg (Wisconsin, Illinois, Sweden, 1878 - 1950) NAME: Greek Procession to Pallas Athena (titled on verso) YEAR: 1940 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Overall good. Normal wear. Minor age toning. Minor damage to upper right corner of the paper. SIGHT SIZE: 12 x 21 inches / 30 x 53 cm PAPER SIZE: 16 x 22 inches / 40 x 55 cm SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 122876 US Shipping $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Lindberg was born January 13, 1878 in Stockholm, Sweden. Although he studied art at the Royal Academy in Stockholm and studied architectural drafting and design at the Stockholm School of Applied Arts, he was mostly a self-taught artist. He immigrated to the United States in 1900 and worked several years as an advertising art director at a commercial art and sign company in Chicago. In 1905 Lindberg met, courted, and married Alma Esser.Lindberg then resided in Minneapolis for two years before coming to Milwaukee in 1911. From 1911 to 1915 Lindberg was employed as an artist for the Meyer-Rotier Company, a local printing and binding firm.Lindberg then returned to Minnesota, where he was an instructor in the Fine Arts Department of the University of Minnesota. He left teaching and moved to Omaha, Nebraska to work for a large printing company, the Acorn Press. In 1933 Lindberg moved again to Milwaukee, where he stayed until his death from cancer on September 22, 1949. His wife, who was ill at the time of Lindberg’s death, died 10 weeks later, also from cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Oct. 08, 2023
Thorsten Lindberg (WI,IL,Sweden,1878-1950) watercolor painting
Est: $360 - $450
ARTIST: Thorsten Harold Lindberg (Wisconsin, Illinois, Sweden, 1878 - 1950) NAME: Trumpeters Before Wall, North Africa YEAR: 1940 MEDIUM: watercolor on heavy paper CONDITION: Very good. SIGHT SIZE: 11 x 15 inches / 27 x 38 cm PAPER SIZE: 14 x 14 inches / 35 x 35 cm SIGNATURE: lower left CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 122875 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Lindberg was born January 13, 1878 in Stockholm, Sweden. Although he studied art at the Royal Academy in Stockholm and studied architectural drafting and design at the Stockholm School of Applied Arts, he was mostly a self-taught artist. He immigrated to the United States in 1900 and worked several years as an advertising art director at a commercial art and sign company in Chicago. In 1905 Lindberg met, courted, and married Alma Esser.Lindberg then resided in Minneapolis for two years before coming to Milwaukee in 1911. From 1911 to 1915 Lindberg was employed as an artist for the Meyer-Rotier Company, a local printing and binding firm.Lindberg then returned to Minnesota, where he was an instructor in the Fine Arts Department of the University of Minnesota. He left teaching and moved to Omaha, Nebraska to work for a large printing company, the Acorn Press. In 1933 Lindberg moved again to Milwaukee, where he stayed until his death from cancer on September 22, 1949. His wife, who was ill at the time of Lindberg’s death, died 10 weeks later, also from cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Jul. 02, 2023
Thorsten Lindberg (WI,IL,Sweden,1878-1950) watercolor painting
Est: $380 - $475
ARTIST: Thorsten Harold Lindberg (Wisconsin, Illinois, Sweden, 1878 - 1950) NAME: Greek Procession to Pallas Athena (titled on verso) YEAR: 1940 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Overall good. Normal wear. Minor age toning. Minor damage to upper right corner of the paper. SIGHT SIZE: 12 x 21 inches / 30 x 53 cm PAPER SIZE: 16 x 22 inches / 40 x 55 cm SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 122876 US Shipping $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Lindberg was born January 13, 1878 in Stockholm, Sweden. Although he studied art at the Royal Academy in Stockholm and studied architectural drafting and design at the Stockholm School of Applied Arts, he was mostly a self-taught artist. He immigrated to the United States in 1900 and worked several years as an advertising art director at a commercial art and sign company in Chicago. In 1905 Lindberg met, courted, and married Alma Esser.Lindberg then resided in Minneapolis for two years before coming to Milwaukee in 1911. From 1911 to 1915 Lindberg was employed as an artist for the Meyer-Rotier Company, a local printing and binding firm.Lindberg then returned to Minnesota, where he was an instructor in the Fine Arts Department of the University of Minnesota. He left teaching and moved to Omaha, Nebraska to work for a large printing company, the Acorn Press. In 1933 Lindberg moved again to Milwaukee, where he stayed until his death from cancer on September 22, 1949. His wife, who was ill at the time of Lindberg’s death, died 10 weeks later, also from cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Jul. 02, 2023
Thorsten Lindberg (WI,IL,Sweden,1878-1950) watercolor painting
Est: $380 - $475
ARTIST: Thorsten Harold Lindberg (Wisconsin, Illinois, Sweden, 1878 - 1950) NAME: Trumpeters Before Wall, North Africa YEAR: 1940 MEDIUM: watercolor on heavy paper CONDITION: Very good. SIGHT SIZE: 11 x 15 inches / 27 x 38 cm PAPER SIZE: 14 x 14 inches / 35 x 35 cm SIGNATURE: lower left CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 122875 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Lindberg was born January 13, 1878 in Stockholm, Sweden. Although he studied art at the Royal Academy in Stockholm and studied architectural drafting and design at the Stockholm School of Applied Arts, he was mostly a self-taught artist. He immigrated to the United States in 1900 and worked several years as an advertising art director at a commercial art and sign company in Chicago. In 1905 Lindberg met, courted, and married Alma Esser.Lindberg then resided in Minneapolis for two years before coming to Milwaukee in 1911. From 1911 to 1915 Lindberg was employed as an artist for the Meyer-Rotier Company, a local printing and binding firm.Lindberg then returned to Minnesota, where he was an instructor in the Fine Arts Department of the University of Minnesota. He left teaching and moved to Omaha, Nebraska to work for a large printing company, the Acorn Press. In 1933 Lindberg moved again to Milwaukee, where he stayed until his death from cancer on September 22, 1949. His wife, who was ill at the time of Lindberg’s death, died 10 weeks later, also from cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Apr. 09, 2023
Thorsten Lindberg (WI,IL,Sweden,1878-1950) watercolor painting
Est: $380 - $475
ARTIST: Thorsten Harold Lindberg (Wisconsin, Illinois, Sweden, 1878 - 1950) NAME: Greek Procession to Pallas Athena (titled on verso) YEAR: 1940 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Overall good. Normal wear. Minor age toning. Minor damage to upper right corner of the paper. SIGHT SIZE: 12 x 21 inches / 30 x 53 cm PAPER SIZE: 16 x 22 inches / 40 x 55 cm SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 122876 US Shipping $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Lindberg was born January 13, 1878 in Stockholm, Sweden. Although he studied art at the Royal Academy in Stockholm and studied architectural drafting and design at the Stockholm School of Applied Arts, he was mostly a self-taught artist. He immigrated to the United States in 1900 and worked several years as an advertising art director at a commercial art and sign company in Chicago. In 1905 Lindberg met, courted, and married Alma Esser.Lindberg then resided in Minneapolis for two years before coming to Milwaukee in 1911. From 1911 to 1915 Lindberg was employed as an artist for the Meyer-Rotier Company, a local printing and binding firm.Lindberg then returned to Minnesota, where he was an instructor in the Fine Arts Department of the University of Minnesota. He left teaching and moved to Omaha, Nebraska to work for a large printing company, the Acorn Press. In 1933 Lindberg moved again to Milwaukee, where he stayed until his death from cancer on September 22, 1949. His wife, who was ill at the time of Lindberg’s death, died 10 weeks later, also from cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Apr. 09, 2023
Thorsten Lindberg (WI,IL,Sweden,1878-1950) watercolor painting
Est: $380 - $475
ARTIST: Thorsten Harold Lindberg (Wisconsin, Illinois, Sweden, 1878 - 1950) NAME: Trumpeters Before Wall, North Africa YEAR: 1940 MEDIUM: watercolor on heavy paper CONDITION: Very good. SIGHT SIZE: 11 x 15 inches / 27 x 38 cm PAPER SIZE: 14 x 14 inches / 35 x 35 cm SIGNATURE: lower left CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 122875 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Lindberg was born January 13, 1878 in Stockholm, Sweden. Although he studied art at the Royal Academy in Stockholm and studied architectural drafting and design at the Stockholm School of Applied Arts, he was mostly a self-taught artist. He immigrated to the United States in 1900 and worked several years as an advertising art director at a commercial art and sign company in Chicago. In 1905 Lindberg met, courted, and married Alma Esser.Lindberg then resided in Minneapolis for two years before coming to Milwaukee in 1911. From 1911 to 1915 Lindberg was employed as an artist for the Meyer-Rotier Company, a local printing and binding firm.Lindberg then returned to Minnesota, where he was an instructor in the Fine Arts Department of the University of Minnesota. He left teaching and moved to Omaha, Nebraska to work for a large printing company, the Acorn Press. In 1933 Lindberg moved again to Milwaukee, where he stayed until his death from cancer on September 22, 1949. His wife, who was ill at the time of Lindberg’s death, died 10 weeks later, also from cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Jan. 02, 2023
Thorsten Lindberg (WI,IL,Sweden,1878-1950) watercolor painting
Est: $380 - $475
ARTIST: Thorsten Harold Lindberg (Wisconsin, Illinois, Sweden, 1878 - 1950) NAME: Greek Procession to Pallas Athena (titled on verso) YEAR: 1940 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Overall good. Normal wear. Minor age toning. Minor damage to upper right corner of the paper. SIGHT SIZE: 12 x 21 inches / 30 x 53 cm PAPER SIZE: 16 x 22 inches / 40 x 55 cm SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 122876 US Shipping $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Lindberg was born January 13, 1878 in Stockholm, Sweden. Although he studied art at the Royal Academy in Stockholm and studied architectural drafting and design at the Stockholm School of Applied Arts, he was mostly a self-taught artist. He immigrated to the United States in 1900 and worked several years as an advertising art director at a commercial art and sign company in Chicago. In 1905 Lindberg met, courted, and married Alma Esser.Lindberg then resided in Minneapolis for two years before coming to Milwaukee in 1911. From 1911 to 1915 Lindberg was employed as an artist for the Meyer-Rotier Company, a local printing and binding firm.Lindberg then returned to Minnesota, where he was an instructor in the Fine Arts Department of the University of Minnesota. He left teaching and moved to Omaha, Nebraska to work for a large printing company, the Acorn Press. In 1933 Lindberg moved again to Milwaukee, where he stayed until his death from cancer on September 22, 1949. His wife, who was ill at the time of Lindberg’s death, died 10 weeks later, also from cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Jan. 02, 2023
Thorsten Lindberg (WI,IL,Sweden,1878-1950) watercolor painting
Est: $380 - $475
ARTIST: Thorsten Harold Lindberg (Wisconsin, Illinois, Sweden, 1878 - 1950) NAME: Trumpeters Before Wall, North Africa YEAR: 1940 MEDIUM: watercolor on heavy paper CONDITION: Very good. SIGHT SIZE: 11 x 15 inches / 27 x 38 cm PAPER SIZE: 14 x 14 inches / 35 x 35 cm SIGNATURE: lower left CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 122875 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Lindberg was born January 13, 1878 in Stockholm, Sweden. Although he studied art at the Royal Academy in Stockholm and studied architectural drafting and design at the Stockholm School of Applied Arts, he was mostly a self-taught artist. He immigrated to the United States in 1900 and worked several years as an advertising art director at a commercial art and sign company in Chicago. In 1905 Lindberg met, courted, and married Alma Esser.Lindberg then resided in Minneapolis for two years before coming to Milwaukee in 1911. From 1911 to 1915 Lindberg was employed as an artist for the Meyer-Rotier Company, a local printing and binding firm.Lindberg then returned to Minnesota, where he was an instructor in the Fine Arts Department of the University of Minnesota. He left teaching and moved to Omaha, Nebraska to work for a large printing company, the Acorn Press. In 1933 Lindberg moved again to Milwaukee, where he stayed until his death from cancer on September 22, 1949. His wife, who was ill at the time of Lindberg’s death, died 10 weeks later, also from cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Nov. 19, 2022
Thorsten Lindberg (1878-1950) Watercolor On Board
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Signed 1931 In The Lower Right Corner. Measures Approximately 20in X 15in. Nr12993 Zh
EJ'S Auction & Appraisal
Nov. 19, 2022
Thorsten Lindberg (1878-1950) Watercolor On Board
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Signed In The Lower Right. Measures Approximately 20in X 15in. Nr12993 Zh
EJ'S Auction & Appraisal
Nov. 06, 2022
THORSTEN LINDBERG "SOLOMON JUNEAU'S WEDDING" ORIGINAL MURAL STUDY SKETCH WATERCOLOR, GOUACHE, & GRAPHITE ON BOARD FOR MILWAUKEE AUDITORIUM
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OWN A PIECE OF HISTORY! RARE! Thorsten Harold Lindberg (1878 - 1950) "Solomon Juneau's Wedding" Original Mural Sketch Watercolor, Gouache, & Graphite on Board for the Milwaukee Auditorium now (Miller High Life Theater). This is the study for the actual mural that still resides in the Miller High Life Theater. During the 1930s under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” initiative to help America recover from the Great Depression. Lindberg was employed as an artist for many of the Works Project Administration’s (WPA) historical art projects for the Milwaukee County Historical Society, the Milwaukee Public Museum, and the County Park system. In the early 1940s during the countries involvement of World War II, the then-Milwaukee Auditorium was able to still secure grants and funding for artistic enhancements. Lindberg was chosen to design and paint a series of historical murals which feature some of the city’s “Founding Fathers". This study was completed for the mural at the head of a grand staircase in the Miller High Life Theaters' east rotunda. It depicts the wedding of Solomon Laurent Juneau (1793-1856) and Josette Juneau (1804-1855) the daughter of a French-Indian trader and tribal chief, in 1820. The proposed mural work on is completed in a way to show what it will look like to scale when hung on the walls. It includes the artist's writing in pencil showing the dimensions of the wall, and canvas. Also with the description "Solomon Juneau's Wedding / Proposed Mural Painting On North Wall Of Central Stairway, Milw. Auditorium / Preliminary Sketch By T. Lindberg, Staff Artist / 1943." Artist: Thorsten Lindberg Title: "Solomon Juneau's Wedding Medium: Watercolor & Gouache Circa/Year: 1943 Signature Type: Hand Signed Signature Location: Lower Right Keywords: Native American, Indian Artwork, Art; Ref: BD1465
Bradford's
Nov. 06, 2022
THORSTEN LINDBERG "SOLOMON JUNEAU, THE TRADER" ORIGINAL MURAL STUDY SKETCH WATERCOLOR, GOUACHE, & GRAPHITE ON BOARD FOR MILWAUKEE AUDITORIUM
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OWN A PIECE OF HISTORY! RARE! Thorsten Harold Lindberg (1878 - 1950) "Solomon Juneau, The Trader" Mural Sketch Watercolor, Gouache, & Graphite on Board for the Milwaukee Auditorium now (Miller High Life Theater). This is the study for the actual mural that still resides in the Miller High Life Theater. During the 1930s under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” initiative to help America recover from the Great Depression. Lindberg was employed as an artist for many of the Works Project Administration’s (WPA) historical art projects for the Milwaukee County Historical Society, the Milwaukee Public Museum, and the County Park system. In the early 1940s during the countries involvement of World War II, the then-Milwaukee Auditorium was able to still secure grants and funding for artistic enhancements. Lindberg was chosen to design and paint a series of historical murals which feature some of the city’s “Founding Fathers". This study was completed for the mural at the head of a grand staircase in the Miller High Life Theaters' east rotunda. It depicts Solomon Laurent Juneau (1793-1856) Milwaukee’s first permanent white settler in 1818, trading with Indian tribes at a cabin he built east of the confluence of the Milwaukee and Menomonee Rivers, an area soon known as Juneautown. The proposed mural work on is completed in a way to show what it will look like to scale when hung on the walls. It includes the artist's writing in pencil showing the dimensions of the wall, and canvas. Also with the description "Solomon Juneau, The Trader / Proposed Mural Painting On South Wall Of Central Stairway, Milw. Auditorium / Preliminary Sketch By T. Lindberg, Staff Artist / 1943." Artist: Thorsten Lindberg Title: "Solomon Juneau, The Trad Medium: Watercolor & Gouache Circa/Year: 1943 Signature Type: Hand Signed Signature Location: Lower Right Keywords: Native American, Indian Artwork, Art; Ref: BD1465
Bradford's
Jul. 24, 2022
ASST THORSTEN LINDBERG ORIGINAL SKETCHES & PHOTOS
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Lot of Assorted Vintage Thorsten Lindberg Original Sketches & Photos. WPA Artist Thorsten Lindberg worked in Milwaukee through the 1930s and 40s, creating a number of murals that adorn such spaces as the Milwaukee Theater and are found in the collections of the Milwaukee County Historical Society and the Milwaukee Public Museum, among others. From the Grohmann Museum collection, Lindberg's Pewtersmiths, 1938, reflects on the work of an earlier era, when smiths of all types provided a number of essential services for their communities. Each piece is signed and dated by the artist. Keywords: Collectible, Artwork; Ref: BD1465
Bradford's
Jul. 24, 2022
LOT OF 4 THORSTEN LINDBERG ORIGINAL MURAL SKETCHES
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Lot of 4 Thorsten Lindberg Original Mural Sketches. Lot includes (4) original sketches depicting various historical music scenes by Swedish artist, Thorsten H.F. Lindberg. Sketches are titled: " Greek Processional to Pallas Athena", "German Band-Symphony In Blue"', Trumpets Before the Walls of Zinder Hausa States North Africa", English Carol Violin Quartet". Each sketch was intended for a specific wall in a music room that Thorsten Lindberg was commissioned. It is believed that these mock-ups were originally intended for one of the rooms inside the Miller High Life Theater; formerly called The Milwaukee Theatre. Currently, the Miller High Life Theater is home to nine murals by Mr. Lindberg. WPA Artist Thorsten Lindberg worked in Milwaukee through the 1930s and 40s, creating a number of murals that adorn such spaces as the Milwaukee Theater and are found in the collections of the Milwaukee County Historical Society and the Milwaukee Public Museum, among others. From the Grohmann Museum collection, Lindberg's Pewtersmiths, 1938, reflects on the work of an earlier era, when smiths of all types provided a number of essential services for their communities. Each piece is signed and dated by the artist. Keywords: Collectible, Artwork; Ref: BD1465
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Jul. 24, 2022
VINTAGE MISC. LOT THORSTEN LINDBERG DRAWINGS & PHOTOGRAPHS
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Lot of Assorted Vintage Thorsten Lindberg Drawings & Photographs. Includes: Drawings & Photographs of his artwork and photographs by Ludwig T Lindberg, Stockholm. Thorsten Lindberg was born January 13, 1878 in Stockholm, Sweden. Although he studied art at the Royal Academy in Stockholm and studied architectural drafting and design at the Stockholm School of Applied Arts, he was mostly a self-taught artist. He immigrated to the United States in 1900 and worked several years as an advertising art director at a commercial art and sign company in Chicago. While in Milwaukee Lindberg was employed as a commercial artist and as a staff artist for many of the Works Project Administration’s (WPA) historical art projects for the Milwaukee County Historical Society, the Milwaukee Public Museum, and the County Park system. The WPA was one of many programs established in the 1930s under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” initiative to help America recover from the Great Depression, and was the federal government’s most ambitious undertaking ever to provide employment for the jobless. Though disparaged by critics as a wasteful “make work” program, the WPA eventually provided wage-earning work to about a third of the nation’s 10 million Depression-era unemployed, and enriched the nation with a valuable legacy of art, literature, cultural documentation, public works and architecture. In the early 1940’s, the nation’s involvement in World War II overwhelmed the need for, and commitment to, the WPA and its successors, but some grants continued to be authorized and funded, and the then-Milwaukee Auditorium was among those to secure funding for artistic enhancements. Lindberg was selected to design and paint a series of historical murals which immortalize some of the city’s “Founding Fathers.” At the head of a grand staircase in the Miller High Life Theatre’s east rotunda is one of Lindberg’s largest murals, entitled Solomon Juneau. The mural features Juneau – Milwaukee’s first permanent white settler in 1818 – trading with area Indian tribes at the cabin he built east of the confluence of the Milwaukee and Menomonee Rivers, an area soon known as Juneautown. In an adjoining grand staircase is Solomon Juneau and Josette Vieau, depicting the wedding between Juneau and the daughter of a French-Indian trader and tribal chief, in 1820. Three of Lindberg’s murals are found in Kilbourn Hall, where he painted Byron Kilbourn, depicting the founder of the West Side village then called Kilbourntown, Enoch Chase and E.S. Estes, who together founded an 1835 lakefront settlement in Bay View, and George H. Walker, the 1834 founder of Walker’s Point, now a South Side neighborhood. Lindberg also used his talents to depict Wisconsin’s growing industries in what is now the Miller High Life Theatre’s box office lobby. These include Milwaukee Industries, featuring the city’s foundries, tanneries, dairies and steel and paper mills, and Wisconsin Agriculture, painted in 1944, showing a transition, with the State Capitol as a backdrop, from Wisconsin farming with hand labor and horse-drawn plow to the use of motorized tractors and other modern farm machinery. Also in the room is a portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes (1819 – 1890), the inventor of the typewriter, showing Sholes, inspired by a Muse, imagining an office full of women using his new invention. The Wisconsin Center houses two pieces by Lindberg depicting industries that were crucial to Wisconsin’s growth and development – America’s Dairy Land, painted in 1942, and Wisconsin Loggers, done in 1943. Keywords: Advertising Collectible; Ref: BD1465
Bradford's
Jul. 24, 2022
10PC THORSTEN LINDBERG MILWAUKEE LANDSCAPE WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS
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Vintage 10pc Thorsten Lindberg Milwaukee Landscape Watercolors . Includes: Rustic Stairway Whitnall Park; Home on Milwaukee River; Snow Flurry; Lone Tree; Lake Park; Beach on Lake Michigan after Rain; Lake and Sky; Spring comes to Honeycreek Parkway; From his studio window. Thorsten Lindberg was born January 13, 1878 in Stockholm, Sweden. Although he studied art at the Royal Academy in Stockholm and studied architectural drafting and design at the Stockholm School of Applied Arts, he was mostly a self-taught artist. He immigrated to the United States in 1900 and worked several years as an advertising art director at a commercial art and sign company in Chicago. While in Milwaukee Lindberg was employed as a commercial artist and as a staff artist for many of the Works Project Administration’s (WPA) historical art projects for the Milwaukee County Historical Society, the Milwaukee Public Museum, and the County Park system. The WPA was one of many programs established in the 1930s under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” initiative to help America recover from the Great Depression, and was the federal government’s most ambitious undertaking ever to provide employment for the jobless. Though disparaged by critics as a wasteful “make work” program, the WPA eventually provided wage-earning work to about a third of the nation’s 10 million Depression-era unemployed, and enriched the nation with a valuable legacy of art, literature, cultural documentation, public works and architecture. In the early 1940’s, the nation’s involvement in World War II overwhelmed the need for, and commitment to, the WPA and its successors, but some grants continued to be authorized and funded, and the then-Milwaukee Auditorium was among those to secure funding for artistic enhancements. Lindberg was selected to design and paint a series of historical murals which immortalize some of the city’s “Founding Fathers.” At the head of a grand staircase in the Miller High Life Theatre’s east rotunda is one of Lindberg’s largest murals, entitled Solomon Juneau. The mural features Juneau – Milwaukee’s first permanent white settler in 1818 – trading with area Indian tribes at the cabin he built east of the confluence of the Milwaukee and Menomonee Rivers, an area soon known as Juneautown. In an adjoining grand staircase is Solomon Juneau and Josette Vieau, depicting the wedding between Juneau and the daughter of a French-Indian trader and tribal chief, in 1820. Three of Lindberg’s murals are found in Kilbourn Hall, where he painted Byron Kilbourn, depicting the founder of the West Side village then called Kilbourntown, Enoch Chase and E.S. Estes, who together founded an 1835 lakefront settlement in Bay View, and George H. Walker, the 1834 founder of Walker’s Point, now a South Side neighborhood. Lindberg also used his talents to depict Wisconsin’s growing industries in what is now the Miller High Life Theatre’s box office lobby. These include Milwaukee Industries, featuring the city’s foundries, tanneries, dairies and steel and paper mills, and Wisconsin Agriculture, painted in 1944, showing a transition, with the State Capitol as a backdrop, from Wisconsin farming with hand labor and horse-drawn plow to the use of motorized tractors and other modern farm machinery. Also in the room is a portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes (1819 – 1890), the inventor of the typewriter, showing Sholes, inspired by a Muse, imagining an office full of women using his new invention. The Wisconsin Center houses two pieces by Lindberg depicting industries that were crucial to Wisconsin’s growth and development – America’s Dairy Land, painted in 1942, and Wisconsin Loggers, done in 1943. Keywords: Advertising Collectible; Ref: BD1465
Bradford's
Jul. 24, 2022
5PC THORSTEN LINDBERG NEBRASKA LANDSCAPE WATERCOLORS PAINTINGS
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Vintage 5pc Thorsten Lindberg Nebraska Landscape Watercolors . Includes: Receding Storm; Webers Mill; Farm Near Omaha; Deer Park; A Wet Morning. Thorsten Lindberg was born January 13, 1878 in Stockholm, Sweden. Although he studied art at the Royal Academy in Stockholm and studied architectural drafting and design at the Stockholm School of Applied Arts, he was mostly a self-taught artist. He immigrated to the United States in 1900 and worked several years as an advertising art director at a commercial art and sign company in Chicago. While in Milwaukee Lindberg was employed as a commercial artist and as a staff artist for many of the Works Project Administration’s (WPA) historical art projects for the Milwaukee County Historical Society, the Milwaukee Public Museum, and the County Park system. The WPA was one of many programs established in the 1930s under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” initiative to help America recover from the Great Depression, and was the federal government’s most ambitious undertaking ever to provide employment for the jobless. Though disparaged by critics as a wasteful “make work” program, the WPA eventually provided wage-earning work to about a third of the nation’s 10 million Depression-era unemployed, and enriched the nation with a valuable legacy of art, literature, cultural documentation, public works and architecture. In the early 1940’s, the nation’s involvement in World War II overwhelmed the need for, and commitment to, the WPA and its successors, but some grants continued to be authorized and funded, and the then-Milwaukee Auditorium was among those to secure funding for artistic enhancements. Lindberg was selected to design and paint a series of historical murals which immortalize some of the city’s “Founding Fathers.” At the head of a grand staircase in the Miller High Life Theatre’s east rotunda is one of Lindberg’s largest murals, entitled Solomon Juneau. The mural features Juneau – Milwaukee’s first permanent white settler in 1818 – trading with area Indian tribes at the cabin he built east of the confluence of the Milwaukee and Menomonee Rivers, an area soon known as Juneautown. In an adjoining grand staircase is Solomon Juneau and Josette Vieau, depicting the wedding between Juneau and the daughter of a French-Indian trader and tribal chief, in 1820. Three of Lindberg’s murals are found in Kilbourn Hall, where he painted Byron Kilbourn, depicting the founder of the West Side village then called Kilbourntown, Enoch Chase and E.S. Estes, who together founded an 1835 lakefront settlement in Bay View, and George H. Walker, the 1834 founder of Walker’s Point, now a South Side neighborhood. Lindberg also used his talents to depict Wisconsin’s growing industries in what is now the Miller High Life Theatre’s box office lobby. These include Milwaukee Industries, featuring the city’s foundries, tanneries, dairies and steel and paper mills, and Wisconsin Agriculture, painted in 1944, showing a transition, with the State Capitol as a backdrop, from Wisconsin farming with hand labor and horse-drawn plow to the use of motorized tractors and other modern farm machinery. Also in the room is a portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes (1819 – 1890), the inventor of the typewriter, showing Sholes, inspired by a Muse, imagining an office full of women using his new invention. The Wisconsin Center houses two pieces by Lindberg depicting industries that were crucial to Wisconsin’s growth and development – America’s Dairy Land, painted in 1942, and Wisconsin Loggers, done in 1943. Keywords: Advertising Collectible; Ref: BD1465
Bradford's
Jul. 24, 2022
LOT OF THORSTEN LINDBERG WATERCOLOR & DRAWING PORTRAITS PAINTINGS
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Vintage Lot of Thorsten Lindberg Watercolor & Drawing Portraits. Thorsten Lindberg was born January 13, 1878 in Stockholm, Sweden. Although he studied art at the Royal Academy in Stockholm and studied architectural drafting and design at the Stockholm School of Applied Arts, he was mostly a self-taught artist. He immigrated to the United States in 1900 and worked several years as an advertising art director at a commercial art and sign company in Chicago. While in Milwaukee Lindberg was employed as a commercial artist and as a staff artist for many of the Works Project Administration’s (WPA) historical art projects for the Milwaukee County Historical Society, the Milwaukee Public Museum, and the County Park system. The WPA was one of many programs established in the 1930s under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” initiative to help America recover from the Great Depression, and was the federal government’s most ambitious undertaking ever to provide employment for the jobless. Though disparaged by critics as a wasteful “make work” program, the WPA eventually provided wage-earning work to about a third of the nation’s 10 million Depression-era unemployed, and enriched the nation with a valuable legacy of art, literature, cultural documentation, public works and architecture. In the early 1940’s, the nation’s involvement in World War II overwhelmed the need for, and commitment to, the WPA and its successors, but some grants continued to be authorized and funded, and the then-Milwaukee Auditorium was among those to secure funding for artistic enhancements. Lindberg was selected to design and paint a series of historical murals which immortalize some of the city’s “Founding Fathers.” At the head of a grand staircase in the Miller High Life Theatre’s east rotunda is one of Lindberg’s largest murals, entitled Solomon Juneau. The mural features Juneau – Milwaukee’s first permanent white settler in 1818 – trading with area Indian tribes at the cabin he built east of the confluence of the Milwaukee and Menomonee Rivers, an area soon known as Juneautown. In an adjoining grand staircase is Solomon Juneau and Josette Vieau, depicting the wedding between Juneau and the daughter of a French-Indian trader and tribal chief, in 1820. Three of Lindberg’s murals are found in Kilbourn Hall, where he painted Byron Kilbourn, depicting the founder of the West Side village then called Kilbourntown, Enoch Chase and E.S. Estes, who together founded an 1835 lakefront settlement in Bay View, and George H. Walker, the 1834 founder of Walker’s Point, now a South Side neighborhood. Lindberg also used his talents to depict Wisconsin’s growing industries in what is now the Miller High Life Theatre’s box office lobby. These include Milwaukee Industries, featuring the city’s foundries, tanneries, dairies and steel and paper mills, and Wisconsin Agriculture, painted in 1944, showing a transition, with the State Capitol as a backdrop, from Wisconsin farming with hand labor and horse-drawn plow to the use of motorized tractors and other modern farm machinery. Also in the room is a portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes (1819 – 1890), the inventor of the typewriter, showing Sholes, inspired by a Muse, imagining an office full of women using his new invention. The Wisconsin Center houses two pieces by Lindberg depicting industries that were crucial to Wisconsin’s growth and development – America’s Dairy Land, painted in 1942, and Wisconsin Loggers, done in 1943. Keywords: Advertising Collectible; Ref: BD1465
Bradford's
Jul. 24, 2022
LOT OF VINTAGE THORSTEN LINDBERG ADVERTISING MOCKUPS
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Vintage Lot of Thorsten Lindberg Advertising Mockups. Includes: Standard True Age Beer; 1947 Los Angeles American Bowling Congress Calendars; Koehring Construction Mixers; 1940 Allis Chalmers Calendars; Phoenix Children's Hosiery; Roxo Waukesha; Save Paper Use Shopping Bags; Exercise for Health and Victory Milwaukee county Council of Defense; Baby Rice Brand Popcorn; Plates of Quality and more. Lindberg was born January 13, 1878 in Stockholm, Sweden. Although he studied art at the Royal Academy in Stockholm and studied architectural drafting and design at the Stockholm School of Applied Arts, he was mostly a self-taught artist. He immigrated to the United States in 1900 and worked several years as an advertising art director at a commercial art and sign company in Chicago. While in Milwaukee Lindberg was employed as a commercial artist and as a staff artist for many of the Works Project Administration’s (WPA) historical art projects for the Milwaukee County Historical Society, the Milwaukee Public Museum, and the County Park system. The WPA was one of many programs established in the 1930s under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” initiative to help America recover from the Great Depression, and was the federal government’s most ambitious undertaking ever to provide employment for the jobless. Though disparaged by critics as a wasteful “make work” program, the WPA eventually provided wage-earning work to about a third of the nation’s 10 million Depression-era unemployed, and enriched the nation with a valuable legacy of art, literature, cultural documentation, public works and architecture. In the early 1940’s, the nation’s involvement in World War II overwhelmed the need for, and commitment to, the WPA and its successors, but some grants continued to be authorized and funded, and the then-Milwaukee Auditorium was among those to secure funding for artistic enhancements. Lindberg was selected to design and paint a series of historical murals which immortalize some of the city’s “Founding Fathers.” At the head of a grand staircase in the Miller High Life Theatre’s east rotunda is one of Lindberg’s largest murals, entitled Solomon Juneau. The mural features Juneau – Milwaukee’s first permanent white settler in 1818 – trading with area Indian tribes at the cabin he built east of the confluence of the Milwaukee and Menomonee Rivers, an area soon known as Juneautown. In an adjoining grand staircase is Solomon Juneau and Josette Vieau, depicting the wedding between Juneau and the daughter of a French-Indian trader and tribal chief, in 1820. Three of Lindberg’s murals are found in Kilbourn Hall, where he painted Byron Kilbourn, depicting the founder of the West Side village then called Kilbourntown, Enoch Chase and E.S. Estes, who together founded an 1835 lakefront settlement in Bay View, and George H. Walker, the 1834 founder of Walker’s Point, now a South Side neighborhood. Lindberg also used his talents to depict Wisconsin’s growing industries in what is now the Miller High Life Theatre’s box office lobby. These include Milwaukee Industries, featuring the city’s foundries, tanneries, dairies and steel and paper mills, and Wisconsin Agriculture, painted in 1944, showing a transition, with the State Capitol as a backdrop, from Wisconsin farming with hand labor and horse-drawn plow to the use of motorized tractors and other modern farm machinery. Also in the room is a portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes (1819 – 1890), the inventor of the typewriter, showing Sholes, inspired by a Muse, imagining an office full of women using his new invention. The Wisconsin Center houses two pieces by Lindberg depicting industries that were crucial to Wisconsin’s growth and development – America’s Dairy Land, painted in 1942, and Wisconsin Loggers, done in 1943. Keywords: Advertising Collectible; Ref: BD1465
Bradford's
Sep. 12, 2021
THORSTEN LINDBERG "CHIEF WHITE MAN RUNS HIM" WATERCOLOR ON BOARD
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Thorsten Lindberg "Chief White Man Runs Him" Watercolor on Board. Quote on back "White Man Runs Him" Crow Indian Chief one of Custer's Crow Indian Scouts- from Geographic Magazine Sept. 1927. Watercolor is from a photograph taken by Edwin L Wisherd who spent time on the reservation with White Man Runs Him. Thorsten Lindberg (1878-1950) Born in Stockholm, Lindberg studied art at a technical school in Stockholm before he immigrated to Chicago in 1901, then moved to Minneapolis in 1909 where he taught at the University of Minnesota until he moved to Omaha, then finally to Milwaukee. There he worked for the WPA as an artist and a supervisor. He became known especially for his watercolor painting and for his historical subjects. Artist: Thorsten Lindberg Title: "Chief White Man Runs Him Medium: Watercolor on Board Circa/Year: 1940 Signature Type: Hand Signed Signature Location: Lower Right Site Measurement: 13.5in x 15in Keywords: Native American, Indian Artwork, Art; Ref: BD1465
Bradford's
Apr. 07, 2018
Thorsten Lindberg (1878-1950) Woodcut
Est: $100 - $200
Thorsten Lindberg original woodcut. Signed and dated in plate lower right. Measures 16.5" x 11.5" (sheet size). Excellent condition. Unframed, loose and not mounted or glued down. Provenance: Amity Art Foundation, Inc. collection. We ship most items in this auction in-house with the exception of furniture, large or heavier artwork and extremely fragile items requiring special packaging.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Dec. 05, 2014
Thorsten Harold Lindberg, (Wisconsin, 1878-1950), Spring Landscape, 1937
Est: $300 - $500
Thorsten Harold Lindberg (Wisconsin, 1878-1950) Spring Landscape, 1937 watercolor signed Thorsten Lindberg and dated (lower right) 10 x 12 inches.
Hindman
Nov. 23, 2014
THORSTEN HAROLD LINDBERG (AMERICAN 1878 -1950)
Est: $200 - $400
Untitled (landscape) Oil on wood panel mounted on canvas, signed lower right, 15. Dimensions: Frame H 16 5/8" x W 21 3/8", board H 12 1/2" X 17 5/8" Condition: good, surface dirt
Westport Auction
Oct. 27, 2005
THORSTEN LINDBERG
Est: $400 - $500
THORSTEN LINDBERG, (American, b. 1878), oil on canvas, depicting a portrait of Lord Thomas deShalford and his brother, 30" x 25", signed u.l. and dated 1947. Provenance: collection of the Right Honorable Lord de Shalford of Shalford Hall Essex; current owner.
Frank Boos