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Painting
Starlings Flocking
Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt, (Sweden (Tullstorp, Skane), 1878 - 1955, Henderson, TX)
Nordfeldt, Bror Julius Olsson
United States
1878 - 1955
Male
40 x 48 in. (101.6 x 121.9 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1947
1947
1947
20th century, birds, movement, paintings
Painting
A Rochester artist, Whitney Hoyt (also represented in this exhibition), purchased Starlings Flocking from a show in New York and immediately presented it to MAG. The Swedish-born B. J. O. Nordfeldt was recognized as a master of Expressionism and in her letter of thanks to the donor, Gallery director Gertrude Herdle Moore waxed rhapsodic in describing her reaction to his painting: “I cannot tell you whether I am hearing or seeing it more—or whether I have ever before been caught up into such a dynamic sensation of movement sweeping through space. The Van Gogh Starry Night did the same thing to me . . . [Those starlings] fill the air about you with their darting wings and cut it as if it were a visible substance . . . I have begun to hear a pulsating beat in the spiraling motion of the design and to feel surrounded by its luminous planes.”
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
lower right
1948.1
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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7/12/2012
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