1874: Born May 5th in Kolsebro, Sweden; 1884: Travelled to United States and settled in Buffalo, New York; worked in a lithographer’s shop; 1902: Won a scholarship to attend the Art Students League in New York City; studied with Frank V. Dumond and Birge Harrison; 1903: Awarded a scholarship to study with Harrison at Woodstock, New York; 1911: Elected Associate National Academician; first one-man show in New York City; travelled to Paris; 1911-18: Appointed director of Art Students League Summer School at Woodstock, New York; 1913: Married Margaret Goddard of Plainfield, New Jersey; 1920-22: Co-founder of the Broadmoor Art Academy, Colorado Springs; 1922: Founded the John F. Carlson School of Landscape Painting at Woodstock, New York; 1925: Elected a National Academician; 1928: Wrote “Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting”; 1945: Died.