**Originally Listed At $400**

Susanne Nyberg (American, b. 1953). Oil on canvas, 1982. Signed and dated on lower right. A charming campfire scene painted by American artist Susanne Nyberg. The composition is delineated with Nyberg's expressive brushwork and impasto as well as a dramatic use of light. Two Native American figures sit around a campfire they built in the desert. The firelight glows at the center of the composition, and the surrounding landscape is graced by majestic cacti with mountains in the distance and stars twinkling in the azure skies above. Size: 12" L x 16" W (30.5 cm x 40.6 cm)

Susanne Nyberg was raised in Massachusetts, later moved to Washington, D.C., and then to Arizona. In Boston, she studied at the Art Institute and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and in Washington, D.C. she studied at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. This said, perhaps her greatest influence was artist Bill Freeman, the prominent Western landscape painter whom she met when she moved to Arizona early in her career. Freeman would become her mentor and close friend. Nyberg is best known for her impressively realistic oil and palette knife plein air landscape paintings. She and her husband have lived in the scenic Arizona desert in a small town called Carefree for most of their lives.

According to Nyberg's artist statement, "Susanne Nyberg’s artistic inspiration comes from the Arizona mountains where she lives. Whether she is painting realistic landscapes, or abstract paintings that incorporate minerals and gems mined from the mountains, the natural beauty of her surroundings compels her to create art."

Provenance: private Glorieta, New Mexico, USA collection

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Signed and dated by the artist on the lower right. Overall excellent.