Yngve Edward Soderberg

Yngve Edward Soderberg (December 21, 1896 – August 6, 1972) was an American artist whose career was centered on Mystic, Connecticut.

[6] With a scholarship from the Art Institute of Chicago, he headed west for a summer of vagabonding in Yellowstone and British Columbia.

In Chicago, Soderberg made money for his school and living expenses through architectural drawings and other forms of commercial art.

It was a major turning point as it was here that he was to find the field art and sense of place which made him unique, for that time, among etchers.

[9] In 1934 he married Nancy Horn, a summer resident of Mason's Island from Paterson, New Jersey, and an accomplished sailor.

[8] While staying in Hyannisport, Massachusetts with a friend, he made a watercolor of a Wyanno Class boat with the number 94 on her and the name Victura on the stern.

[8] At the end of World War II, Soderberg was invited to board the Danish cadet ship Danmark, which was interned in the Thames River at New London, Connecticut.

He joined the Danmark (ship) as a guest artist and as a result painted one of his most critically acclaimed watercolors, Life Boat.

[12] In the following two years, Soderberg was also a guest artist aboard the US Coast Guard Training Ship Eagle.

In 1962, a large three-panel mural of the training bark Eagle was dedicated at the United States Coast Guard Academy.