Oscar Brousse Jacobson

Born in Vastervik, Sweden, Oscar Jacobson painted over five-hundred landscapes of the Southwest and West in states including Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California.

He was brought to the United States in 1890 at age eight. In 1908, he graduated from Bethany College in Linsborg, Kansas, where he was the pupil of Birger Sandzen. From 1911 to 1915, he taught in Minneapolis, and then studied at the Louvre in Paris and earned a degree from Yale University in 1916. After that, until 1945, he taught at the University of Oklahoma where he was sponsor, benefactor, and guide to fame of the Indian painters' guild, "Five Kiowas." These native American artists, whose work Jacobson admired, were brought to the University by him and given studio space. The expanded group of 31 artists earned international attention when their work was exhibited at the Prague Expo of 1928.

He lectured widely for the Park Service and was a technical advisor for the Public Works Administration.


Source:
Peggy and Harold Samuels, "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West"
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"