Theodore Van Soelen
1890-1964
BORN IN
St. Paul, Minnesota
KNOWN FOR
Southwest landscape, genre, history and portrait painting
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Theodore Van Soelen had a highly distinguished career in both the Eastern and Southwestern United States. His specialty was ranch scenes done in a realistic illustrator style, but he also became a noted landscape and portrait painter with enough illustrator style to be termed a realist but tempered by rearrangement of compositional elements.
He began his art training as a student at the St. Paul Institute of Arts and Sciences from 1908-1911 and then studied for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. From that institution, he won a Cresson Traveling Scholarship for travel and study in Europe in 1913 and 1914.
