Carl E. Wallin

He was born in Östra Husby parish in the province of Östergötland, Sweden and died in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

At the age of 23 Carl E. Wallin emigrated to the United States of America in December 1902, and at first he came to Denver in Colorado.

He devoted his free time to the art, because he was nearly always occupied to do his work with his business as contractor painter as a self-employed person.

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Carl E. Wallin mostly painted in oil and his subjects were portraits and landscapes, often winter motifs, and figures, nature pictures and symbolic fantasy compositions.

He owned an awaken eye for the beautifulness in the nature and for a long time he strived to render everything as true to life as possible on his canvases.

He is original and his paintings of fantasy are creations of his own, which remind one of the work of the French artist Gustave Doré.

Many of Wallin's paintings have won signal honors at the Chicago Art Institute, where he was a student for four years.

The price awarded work was "Evening Fantasy" and it had been brought up as number 107 in the catalog for the exhibition", according to a Chicago newspaper in the 1920s.

A number of paintings in the collection of Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt appear to have come from the 1929 exhibition of "Swedish-American Artists Given Under the Auspices of the Swedish American Art Association" at Illinois Women's Athletic club, March 10–17, 1929.

Wallin's painting from the 1928 exhibition, "Fantasy in Frost" has a title that also correlates with the subject matter of the work in the collection.

His mystical landscapes were shown in several Swedish-American art exhibitions during the 1920s and his work is in the collection of Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt.

Some other of Wallin's paintings, not exhibited, were "Winter scene with creek and distant mountains" and "Lonely Rower".

[15] Carl E. Wallin is represented in Utlandssvenska museet in Gothenburg, "Mountain Genius" (1931), Exhibited in the Exhibitions by Swedish-American Artists at the Swedish Club of Chicago in 1964, and in the collections of Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt (earlier Riksföreningen för svenskhetens bevarande i utlandet), with the oilpainting "Mountain's Soul" (1928).

The artist Carl E. Wallin in 1914. Portrait by his brother, the artist David Wallin (1876–1957).
Denver , Colorado , as it looked like in 1898, a few years before Carl E. Wallin arrived there in 1902. The photographer was William Henry Jackson (1843–1942), an American painter, Civil War veteran, geological survey photographer and an explorer famous for his images of the American West.
Art Institute of Chicago , main entrance.
The Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago , Illinois . The two bronze lions by the American sculptor Edward Kemeys mark the entrance to the building.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . This is a photograph from the year 1900.
Göteborgs Konsthall in Gothenburg in Sweden was built as an art exhibition hall for the jubilee fair of Gothenburg in 1923, the Gothenburg Exhibition (1923) . It is placed in a classicistic building from 1923 at Götaplatsen in the center of the city.