Tore Wideryd Colorful Houses Street Scene Oil Painting in Gold Frame

Tore Wideryd (Swedish, 1908-1992) oil painting on canvas of a street packed with colorful houses. Artwork in contemporary, custom, gold wood frame measures 21" x 18". Artwork and frame in very good condition.

Wideryd was a self taught painter. Between 1924 and 1947 he worked as a draftsman and gravure printer. In 1947 Wideryd won a scholarship in a drawing competition organized by The Stockholm City Museum and Stockholms-Tidningen (Stockholm Times)' newspaper. Wideryd travelled to France in 1947, Spain in (anually between 1951 and 1955) and England in 1959. He had solo exhibitions in Stockholm in 1944, 1948, at Färg och Form (Color and Form) in 1953 and 1957. Group exhibitions include the Swedish Public Art Association Salons in Stockholm in 1950, 1952, 1954 and 1957, the Swedish association Konstmärernas exhibitions in the Konstakademien (1955 and 1957) and at the Stockholm Salons (Stockholmssalongerna) at Liljevalchs Konsthall (1960 and 1965), De Ungas Salong (The youth salon) in 1960 and 1961. Örebro (1947), Östersund (1950), at Gothenburg’s Lorensbergs Art Salon in Gothenburg (1951 and 1955), Skövde in 1952 and then again in 1954 with Esaias Thoren (1901-1981). Linköping (1954 and 1957), Sundsvall (1959) and Nyköping (1960).