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    		• Asbjornsen, Sigvald,
     
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    		• Literature -- Ibsen
     
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    		• Literature -- Character
     
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    		• Figure male -- Bust
     
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    		• Dress -- Accessory
     
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    Terje Viken, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Asbjornsen, Sigvald, 1867-1954, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Terje Viken, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Terje Vigen, (sculpture).
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Plaster.
    Dimensions: 
    11.25 x 9 x 6 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On front of near base, incised:) TERJE VIKEN (On back, impressed:) Made expecially for Normanden Publ(...illegible) Grand Forks, N.D. by S. Asbjørnsen
    Description: 
    Bust of a bearded sailor or fisherman with cap. Based on "Terje Vigen" (or Viken), a poem by Henrik Ibsen published in 1862. The story takes place during the Napoleonic Wars (1807-1814). Terje, from Grimstad, Norway, tries to run an English blockage in a small rowboat in order to smuggle food from Denmark to feed his starving family. He is captured and sent to prison in England. When the war is over and he is released in 1814, he returns home to find that his family has died of hunger. Years later, he rescues at sea an English Lord, his wife, and daughter. The Lord was the commander of the ship that had captured him and now Terje is in a position to revenge his own wife and daughter.
    Subject: 
    Literature -- Ibsen -- Terje Viken
    Literature -- Character -- Terje Viken
    Figure male -- Bust
    Dress -- Accessory -- Hat
    Object Type: 
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, 502 West Water Street, Decorah, Iowa 52101
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Johnson, Simon,
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture was formerly owned by Simon Johnson, the Norwegian-American author and newspaper editor. He was editor of the newspaper Normanden in Grand Forks, North Dakota from 1920-1924. According to the marks on the back, the sculpture was probably made for Normanden.
    References: 
    Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, 2011.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS 14550006
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