History Spotlight
Portrait of the Artist: Carl Lindborg by Doug Humes Photos courtesy of Newtown Square Historical Society
If you have had reason to go to the 2nd floor of the Newtown Township offices in the last few years, you would be hard-pressed to miss these two colorful paintings: Across the Line at the top of the staircase and Les Danseurs at the bottom. The Newtown Square Historical Society had these two paintings in its “attic” at the Paper Mill House, where they had languished for years. An inquiry about them led to the effort to exhibit them, and Township Manager Steve Nease found a place for them when the new Township building opened.
Across the Line, an early football scene
Why show off these paintings in Newtown Square? The paintings were done by Carl Lindborg, who, with his wife Alice, were a force for good in the township for years. Both Lindborgs were artists, educators and historians. They married in 1939 and moved to Newtown Square, buying a historic farmhouse where they lived and worked into the 1990s. Carl taught art in the Marple
Newtown School District, at Eastern College and at Pennsylvania Military College (now Widener). His paintings have been exhibited in high places such as the Whitney Museum in New York and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC. In mid-life, he took up sculpture, and produced the William Penn statue at Pennsbury Manor, Revolutionary War scenes on the Fort Mercer Monument,
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