Carl Redin

Southwestern landscape painter Carl Redin was born in rural southern Sweden in 1892. As a boy, he developed an avid interest in painting and traveled to Stockholm for formal training at the age of fourteen. After a tour of duty with the Swedish navy, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1913 and settled among the large Swedish community in Chicago to work in the building industry.

In 1916 Redin was diagnosed as having tuberculosis and advised to leave the damp climate of the Midwest. He sought treatment at Albuquerque's Methodist Deaconess Sanitorium and during his three year stay he returned to his art.

With Nils Hogner, Ben Turner, and Carl Von Hassler, Redin helped form Albuquerque's first community of artists at a time when the bustling centers of Taos and Santa Fe attracted most of the artists who came to New Mexico.

Carl Redin's first show was sponsored by the Albuquerque Women's Club in 1926. He continued to paint the physical and spiritual beauty of the Southwestern landscape until deteriorating health forced him to leave for the lower altitude of California in 1941. His death came at Los Gatos, California, in June of 1944 at the age of 52.