Boris Gilbertson

[1] Gilbertson was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1907 to a Norwegian-Russian family and spent much of his childhood with his grandparents outside Chicago, Illinois.

He began studies in physics at the University of Chicago but soon switched to art and enrolled at this School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

He married Genevieve Van Metre and they made their home in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.

[2] Gilbertson moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1960.

Consequently, many are part of the General Services Administration collection and have been transferred to the holdings of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Gallery of Art.

One of the 11 limestone reliefs making up Birds and Animals of the Northwest (1937), Gilbertson's sculpture at the United States post office in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Wild Ducks (1940), four-panel aluminum relief created for the New Deal post office in Janesville, Wisconsin. Installed vertically as a single unit at the original location, the panels now hang individually at the newer Janesville post office building. [ 3 ]