Clas Edvard Friström

Friström was born near Karlskrona in the parish of Torhamn, Blekinge County, Sweden on 23 January 1864.

[2] In 1915 Edward and Margaret immigrated to California to join a son and daughter; initially they resided in the San Francisco Bay Area.

"[3] By 1926 the couple had purchased a home and studio in nearby Carmel-by-the-Sea, which was at that time the largest art colony on the American West Coast.

[4] Between 1927 and 1936 he was a frequent and popular exhibitor at the Carmel Art Association, where his seascapes and landscapes received much acclaim.

He was a co-founder of the San Francisco chapter of the reactionary Society for Sanity in Art and exhibited with that organization between 1939 and 1947.