Elga Sesemann

Helene Schjerfbeck & Her Contemporaries

Too Much Art

Mario Naves reviews Independent Visions: Helene Schjerfbeck and Her Contemporaries at Scandinavia House, New York, on view through October 3, 2017. Naves writes: “… an uncompromising, if at times highly affected, talent. At her best, Schjerfbeck holds vulnerability and measure in wiry equilibrium… The innovations of early Modernism liberated these painters [Schjerfbeck, Sigrid Schauman, Ellen […]