Oscar Bergman
Stockholm 1879 - 1963 Saltsjöbaden
Årsta Bridge, Stockholm, July 1940
Signed and inscribed Oscar Bergman Årstabron Stockholm Juli 1940 lower right
Watercolour and gouache on card
36.5 x 51 cm
14 3/8 x 20 1/8 in
Painted and inscribed July 1940, this luminous view looks across Årstaviken to the long arcade of Årstabron—the older (eastern) Årsta railway viaduct, opened in 1929 as part of Stockholm’s modern rail infrastructure. Stretching roughly 753 metres, the bridge was designed by architect Cyrillus Johansson with engineers Ernst Nilsson and Salomon Kasarnowsky,…