Description
24″ x 36″ oil on canvas signed Ernest Fredericks. Buyer pays for shipping.
Biography “Ernest Fredericks,” birth name Frederick Swedlun
“Ernest T. Fredericks” was born in 1877 in McPherson, Kansas. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art and exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute and in the All-Illinois art shows. In Chicago, he created the pseudonym “Ernest T. Fredericks” and was known for his regional landscape paintings. Later he moved to Eureka Springs, AR where he resumed using his birth name, Frederick Ernest Swedlun, and where he and his son taught art classes.
Collections: Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
SOURCES:
Susan Craig, “Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)”
AskART, www.askart.com, accessed Oct. 25, 2007; Art Inventories Cat.
