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Turid Elgstrom-Lindahl (born 1923)
Turid Elgstrom-Lindahl was born to middle-aged parents in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father was a well known artist and writer and her mother a lively and creative woman of Danish descent. She grew up surrounded by a circle of painters and sculptors. After her parents separated, other family members took over Turid’s education directing her towards home economics. In Stockholm she attended the Sewing Academy and French Catering School. In 1942 Turid met her husband, a Swedish journalist, in Berlin. They moved to New York in 1944, eventually making America their permanent home in 1955. Always expressing herself creatively, Turid designed children’s clothing, wrote and illustrated a shopping column, and collaborated with editors on a home design magazine. In New York she worked as a photo stylist, designer and photographer. However, it wasn’t until after her husband’s death in 1984 that Turid took out her father’s paint box and began to paint. Through painting she discovered greater creative possibilities and freedom of expression. Her delicately executed watercolors narrate stories from her childhood, depicting life in Sweden in the twenties and thirties. She captures the flavor of the time by paying close attention to period details such as clothing and furniture styles. Turid currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she continues to paint.
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