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. (more…)
“Maine Pond”. Watercolor, 6 ½” x 9 ⅜” sight size, signed lower right.
Born in 1925, Fiore studied and taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. He later taught at the Philadelphia College of Art, Maryland College of Art, and the National Academy of Design.
At Black Mountain College, Fiore studied with Josef Albers, Ilya Bolotowsky, Willem de Kooning, Jacob Lawrence, and Jean Varda. He belonged to the 10th Street Art Scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of galleries that showed his paintings alongside work by Alex Katz, Lois Dodd, Bernard Langlais, and others. (more…)