Tor Bjurström ((1888-07-13)13 July 1888 – (1966-09-07)7 September 1966) was a Swedish artist specialising in landscape and portrait works.
Bjurström studied at the Swedish Artists Asscoaition school in the period 1905-07 under Richard Bergh and Karl Nordström in Stockholm, and then with Kristian Zahrtmann in Copenhagen in 1907-08.
Following this Bjurström followed his contemporaries to Paris where he stayed from 1908-14, studying under Matisse,[1] before leaving for Norway and Denmark during the First World War.
His teachers and influences also included Van Dongen, and Othon Friesz.
[2] In 1961 Tor Bjurström received the Swedish Prins Eugen medal.