Recollections of Zorn

Shall we start today with a couple of paintings by Anders Zorn (1860-1920), and a couple of quotes about him?

"A man who has always loved his work as well as Zorn and who has that dogged determination that surmounts all obstacles we must readily believe, when he says that he has never yet given up a painting once started. Even when he worked in the difficult watercolor medium, and although he frequently had mishaps of all kinds during the course of painting — as, for instance, when he was painting at one of the London docks, and his stretcher with the mounted painting which was pretty nearly completed blew into the Thames, and a boat-man fished it up with a boathook which he nonchalantly stuck right through the paper — even then, with the painting torn and blurred, he patched it up and finished it."

"In the summer he casts loose the hawsers of his splendid sailing yacht and starts for a cruise, sometimes across the Baltic to Finland or Russia, but mostly round the long coast of Sweden. And wherever he finds a place to suit his fancy he casts his anchor and commences his work, in the morning fishing or hunting, in the afternoon painting."

from "Zorn: The Artist and the Man," by Arvi Hyholm, free at Archive.org.

Book: Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America

Wikipedia on Zorn