Sunday Outing (Fishing) c. 1935

Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt made this print, called *Sunday Outing (Fishing)*, sometime in the twentieth century. Look at the various charcoal grey tones and imagine the artist at work, making adjustments, and deciding how dark to make the shadows under the trees. The figures are carefully arranged in a clearing by the water. I wonder what Nordfeldt thought about as he made it, and how he felt about fishing himself. Is he one of the figures here? I wonder if he ever saw people fishing in a similar scene. He might have had to move things around a bit, decide where things should go, just like painting. And by choosing the dark charcoal, Nordfeldt made some of the details harder to see, leaving them up to our imagination. Isn’t it interesting how one artist responds to another across time and space?