Carl Jonnevold

Carl Henrik Jonnevold was a Norwegian-born American landscape artist. He is known primarily as a California impressionist and tonalist.

Biography

Carl Henrik Jonnevold is thought to have briefly studied art in Paris, before emigrated to the United States in the 1880s. By 1887, he settled in California and opened a studio San Francisco, first at 1617 California Street, and later on Kearny Street. He was a self taught artist who exhibited principally in local galleries.