Brian Magnusson

Affiliate Assistant Professor
Department of Scandinavian Studies

Faculty Profile

Part-Time Instructor, Tacoma Community College
Ph.D., 1988, University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

Research:

Early Scandinavian immigrant artists in the Pacific Northwest
North European Prehistory
Early Iron Age

Dissertation: "Messages, Contexts and Form: Correlates in Scandinavia's Early Iron Age Head Motif (100 B.C. to A.D. 500)." University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1988.

 

Publications:

"Stump Farms and Distant Peaks: Three Swedish Immigrant Painters in the Early Pacific Northwest," The Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, April, October, 1998

"Tacoma, Washington, Rediscovers its Swedish Roots," Utvandrare och invandrare i Sveriges historia, 1846-1996 (Vaxjo: Migrationskommitten & Svenska Emigrantinstitutet, 1997).

"Ofof Grafström: An Immigrant Artist Portrys the Early Pacific Northwest," The Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, April, 1986.

"From Kvikkjokk to the Mississippi: Glimpses Into the Career of Olof Grafström -- Artist, Immigrant, and College Professor," Härute -- Out Here: Swedish Immigrant Artists in Midwest America. Edited by Mary Kirn. Rock Island: Augustana College, 1984.

Curatorial Work

From Parlor, Boarding House and Atelier: Swedish-American Art in Pierce County -- A Retrospective. Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, August to September, 1996.

A Study in Elegance: The Swedish Landscape in Pattern and Print, 1600-1900. Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Tacoma, Washington, January, 1996.

In the Footsteps of Nicholas Dehlin: The Swedish Presence in Pierce County, Washington. Handforth Gallery, December, 1995 - January 1996.

E-mail: magnusson.co@mindspring.com