Anders Zorn (1860–1920) was a leading Swedish painter, sculptor and etcher who won international fame for incisive portraits and luminous genre scenes. He painted royalty and three U.S. presidents, earned the Légion d’honneur in 1889 and with his wife Emma founded the Bellman Prize for Swedish poetry.
Born in Dalarna and trained in Stockholm, Zorn travelled widely and became celebrated for brisk, sketchlike portraits, nudes and sensitive depictions of water and rural life. Midsummer Dance is among his best known works. He and Emma donated their collection to the Swedish state; the Zorn Collections in Mora preserve his home, studio and many paintings, and he is noted for a famously economical palette of white, yellow ochre, vermilion and ivory black.
