River Gallery

1887-1971

Born in Sweden, Sprinchorn came to New York City at age sixteen. He studied and worked with Robert Henri for a decade at the Art Students League.  A longtime friend of Maine-born painter Marsden Hartley, Sprinchorn first visited Northern Maine in 1919 and returned to spend much of his time in the Patten/Shin Pond area between 1937 and 1952.  Ill health forced his departure in 1952; he lived in Selkirk, New York, until his death in 1971.

Sprinchorn’s papers reside at the Raymond H. Fogler Library at the University of Maine at Orono.  The Carl Sprinchorn Admiration Society presents further biographical information online.

Mount Chase, depicted here, sits to the northeast of Mount Katahdin and Baxter State Park.  It is the nearest major peak to the town of Patten, where Sprinchorn painted for much of his life.

Exhibited:

• Armory Show, 1913
• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
• Corcoran Gallery
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• Knoedler Gallery
• Macbeth Gallery

Collections:

• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Portland Museum of Art
• Phillips Memorial Gallery
• RISD
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• High Museum of Art
• New Britain Museum