Agda Viker

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  • Agda
  • Viker
  • Guttorm Aabel Viker (circa 1874-April 7, 1947); architect; worked 30 years for Fairbanks, Morse and Co.; native of Norway; graduate of technical college in Dresden, Germany; founder and former president of Norwegian Technical Society, Chicago, Illinois
  • January 26, 1883 or 1885
  • Husaby, Sweden
  • March 19, 1969
  • Des Plaines, Illinois
  • Swedish
  • 1920: 1415 Greenleaf Avenue, Chicago, Illinois

    1947: 1435 Greenleaf Ave., Chicago, Illinois

    summer home: Pentwater, Michigan
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
  • Sweden
    Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
    Fine Arts Academy, Chicago, Illinois
    School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    Europe
  • Array
  • :   ?-January 26, 1949: Chicago Galleries, Chicago, Illinois; large flower paintings, a portrait, a few landscapes

    October 14-November 9, 1949: Cordon Club, Chicago, Illinois [solo] oil paintings and watercolors
  • Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Wentworth, Chicago, Illinois [he was Mayor 1860]
  • Cordon Club, Chicago, Illinois
  • Siblings:  a brother

    Bessie Helstrom (“one of the outstanding flower painters of our day”)