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ARTIST: Victor Olson (Connecticut, 1924 - 2007) TITLE: Woman in Blue MEDIUM: gouache on board CONDITION: Minor damages to corners. Some age toning. ART SIZE: 18 x 15 inches / 45 x 38 cm BOARD SIZE: 25 x 22 inches / 63 x 55 cm SIGNATURE: lower left LOCATION: This lot is located at our Dania Beach, FL office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 151658 US SHIPPING: $95 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Victor Olson of Fanton Meadows, West Redding, Connecticut was a well known, award-winning Fairfield County artist, as well as an illustrator and graphic designer. He has illustrated many national magazine covers for paperback publications and magazine stories for such publishers as Doubleday, Avon Books, MacFadden Books, Bantan and Monarch. Mr. Olson was born in Bridgeport and was a lifelong area resident. He was a well-known artist. Mr. Olson was a graduate of Bassick High School and attended the Art Career School of New York. One of Mr. Olson's paintings of the founder of Sikorsky Aircraft, Igor Sikorsky's portrait, belongs to the Smithsonian Institute Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.; also, as part of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the American Helicopter Society, a painting of Mr. Sikorski's attempt to construct a vertical flying machine for his first solo flight in Bridgeport. Also, a painting by Mr. Olson of a typical New England scene belongs to the private collection of former President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was a life member of the Scandinavian Club, Fairfield, and the S.S. Norden Club. Survivors include two daughters: Lorinda Blackman and her husband, John, of Norwalk; and Kimberly Olson, of Monroe; two granddaughters: Lyndsay and Cally Blackman; two great-granddaughters: Aubrey and Janae Adams.