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“Corn Dance”, c. 1920–35. Signed Nordfeldt. Oil on canvas. 86×109 cm. Provenance: Private collection, Denmark. julius-olsson-nordfeldt" title="Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt">Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt was born in 1878 in Tullstrop, Skåne in the south of Sweden, His family immigrated to Chicago in 1891. While studying at the Art Institute of Chicago his talents won him on a trip to Paris in 1900 to further his studies in painting. In Paris he studied briefly at the Académie Julien. After less than a year he went to England to learn wood-block printing in the Japanese manner. Nordfeldt’s career underwent a number of changes in the half century he was active. He was influenced by the varied environments he encountered: Sweden, Chicago, Paris, London and New Mexico. In 1919, Nordfeldt decided to take a one week trip to Santa Fe, already an established artists’ colony. Attracted to the crisp light, bold colors and magical landscapes, Nordfeldt remained in New Mexico for the next eighteen years. Nordfeldt’s first painting in New Mexico was of a buffalo dance and was followed by many other paintings of the Pueblo people, as well as a substantial number of portraits, still lifes and pictures of Spanish-Americans.