Name/Title
LithographEntry/Object ID
2002.28.1Description
Lithograph print of a man in traditional Sámi clothing, smoking a pipe, pictured from the shoulders up. He is in side profile against a snowy background, with a bare tree and a low shrub in the midground, dark mountains in the far background, and a yellow sun above some clouds. The linework and coloring ends without discernible borders. The inscription, "Seaberg" appears on the painting in the lower right corner.Type of Print
LithographArtwork Details
Subject Place
Region
Sápmi, Northern EuropeContinent
EuropeContext
Kurt Seaberg is a Minneapolis-based, Sámi-American artist who expresses his Indigenous identity through his art. He has been making lithographs since the 1980s, and it has become his primary medium. He has been a working member of Highpoint Center for Printmaking since 2003. Born in Chicago, Seaberg studied art at the University of Washington, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976. He then studied at the University of Minnesota and learned intaglio and lithography. Seaberg has exhibited at the Swedish American Museum twice. Once with his father, Albin Seaberg, in the 1990s. Albin Seaberg (1918-2005), was a graphic painter and illustrator, as well. Albin Seaberg was the son of two Swedish immigrants from Lappland in Northern Sweden who settled in Minneapolis in 1913. Kurt Seaberg last exhibited at the Swedish American Museum in the summer of 2023, in the solo exhibit "The Spirit of Place: Earth is Home."Acquisition
Accession
2002.28Source or Donor
Found in collectionAcquisition Method
GiftInscription/Signature/Marks
Type
SignatureLocation
Bottom right cornerTranscription
SeabergLexicon
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Art, Lithographs, Winter, Indigenous peoples, Landscape drawingsSearch Terms
Sami (European people), Sami AmericansDimensions
Height
20 inWidth
26-1/4 inRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Kurt SeabergRelated Places
Place
Region
Sápmi, Northern EuropeContinent
EuropeCopyright
Copyright Details
Ownership was legally transferred to the Swedish American Museum per the gift agreement. Certain works may be protected by copyright not governed by the Swedish American Museum.Restrictions
This collection is open to research and does not contain sensitive information.Reproductions
Notes
Reproduction of the Museum's artifacts for publication, commercial use, or distribution requires written permission.
