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Gerda Nordling (May 28, 1875 - 1942) was a Swedish artist, best known for her woodcuts, although she also painted and sculpted. She trained at the Swedish Academy in the 1900s and later at the Académie Lhote in Paris.

She is represented at most major Swedish museums, including Nationalmuseum Stockholm.

Above:Skutor, 1917 - woodcut (Värmlands Museum)

Ture Tideblad (April 28, 1889 - 1967) was a Swedish artist, born in a working class family. He trained at the Royal Academy in the 1910s and at several private art schools in Sweden and in Paris.

His art is often slices of working life and street scenes from Stockholm, such as this one:

Kornhamnstorg, before 1949 - oil on canvas pasted on Masonite panel (Moderna Museet)

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