Carl Gustaf Nelson

Carl Gustaf Nelson (January 5, 1898–August 6, 1988) was an American artist.

Life and career Nelson was born in Hörby, Sweden, and immigrated to Sioux City, Iowa with his family around 1903. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, with Kimon Nicolaïdes at the New York Art Students' League, and with the Tiffany Foundation for Artists in New York City. He had one-man shows at Macbeth Gallery in New York, the Fitchburg Museum, Cambridge Art Association, Georgia Technical Institute, MIT Faculty Club, and the Cambridge School of Design. He moved to the Cranberry Isles off the coast of Maine around 1951. He died at a nephew's home in Illinois in 1988.

In popular culture A photograph of Carl Nelson taken by Lois Lowry appears on the cover of some editions of The Giver.