Collection: Edvard Friström
Clas Edvard Friström (1864–1950) was born near Karlskrona, Sweden. He was active as an artist and art teacher across Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Friström moved to Brisbane, Australia, in the mid-1880s. In 1903, he relocated to Auckland, New Zealand, and subsequently immigrated to California, United States, in 1915.
Friström was an essentially self-taught artist. He taught at the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland. In California, he listed his occupation as a portrait painter, and his exhibited works frequently included seascapes and landscapes, which he showed at venues like the Carmel Art Association.
He exhibited with the Royal Queensland Art Society and the Auckland Society of Artists. In the United States, he co-founded the San Francisco chapter of the Society for Sanity in Art. His canvas Sonoma Valley received an Honorable Mention at the Society's 1943 Fifth Annual Exhibition in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
