Bibliography

Selected primary published resources for the study of Birger Sandzén and his art:

  • Birger Sandzén: A Retrospective. Wichita, KS: Wichita Art Museum, May 4 – June 9, 1985. Essay and catalogue by Howard DeLee Spencer. 
  • Colors of the West: the Paintings of Birger Sandzén. Palm Springs, CA: Palm Springs Art Museum, April 17 – September 12, 2010. Preface by Steven Nash, introduction by Christine Giles, with essays by Christine Giles and Mark Johnson.
  • Diffily, John. “Birger Sandzén: Through the Corridors of Nature.” Southwest Art. Vol. 13, No. 3 (August 1983): 42- 51.
  • Gerdts, William H. Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting 1710-1920. 3 vol. New York: Abbeville Press, 1990.
  • Greenough, Charles Pelham 3rd. The Graphic Work of Birger Sandzén. Lindsborg, KS: Birger Sandzén Memorial Foundation, 2001. Available through the Sandzén Gallery Shop.
  • Griffis, Larry. “Birger Sandzén: the Middle Years 1921-1939.” American Art Review. Vol. 7, No. 3 (June/July 1995): 132-137.
  • Kahler, Bruce. “Lindsborg and the Legacy of Birger Sandzén.” Sweden and America. (Spring 1993): 7-10.
  • Lindquist, Emory. “Birger Sandzén: A Painter and His Two Worlds” Great Plains Quarterly Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter 1985): 53-65.
  • Lindquist, Emory. Birger Sandzén: An Illustrated Biography. Lindsborg, KS: Birger Sandzén Memorial Foundation, 1993. Available through the Sandzén Gallery Shop.
  • Marling, Karal Ann, Bill North and Elizabeth G. Seaton. The Prairie Printmakers: An Exhibition Organized and Toured by Exhibits USA. Kansas City, MO: Exhibits U.S.A., Mid-America Art Alliance.
  • Mines, Cynthia. For the Sake of Art: the Story of an Art Movement in Kansas. McPherson, KS: McPherson Foundation, 1979.
  • O’Neil, Barbara Thompson and George C. Foreman in cooperation with Howard W. Ellington. The Prairie Print Makers. Topeka: Kansas Arts Commission, 1981.
  • Sandzén, Birger. In the Mountains: Reproductions of Lithographs and Wood Cuts of the Colorado Rockies. Introduction by William Allen White. McPherson, KS: Carl J. Smalley, 1925. Occasionally available through used bookstores and websites.
  • Sandzén, Birger. The Smoky Valley: Reproductions of a Series of Lithographs of the Smoky Valley in Kansas. Introduction by Minna K. Powell. McPherson, KS: Carl J. Smalley, 1922. Occasionally available through used bookstores and websites.
  • Sandzén, Birger. “Our Art Problem.” Scandinavia: A Monthly Magazine 1 (January 1924): 74-77.
  • Sandzén, Birger. “The Southwest as Sketching Ground.” Fine Arts Journal 33 (August 1915): 336-51.
  • Sandzén, Birger. “The Technique of Painting.” Fine Arts Journal 32 (January 1915): 22 – 27.