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This winter painting by a Swedish painter Gustaf Fjæstad (1868—1948) was originally part of the George N. Jeppson collection in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

When George N. Jeppson passed away in 1962, he was regarded as one of America's most prominent Swedish Americans. His father, originally from Höganäs, Skåne, in the south of Sweden emigrated to Massachusetts, and founded the successful abrasives manufacturing company Norton Co., in which George, after studies at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, pursued a career. He placed great importance on his Swedish origins and heritage, and for his contributions to the economic and cultural relations between the United States and Sweden, he received a number of official awards and recognitions.

Gustaf Fjæstad, Winter, 1915, Private collection.