Known as Birger Sandzén, he moved to Stockholm in 1891 to study art and joined classes given by Anders Zorn and Richard Bergh; and after military service went to Paris for some months, in 1894, working in the studio shared by Aman-Jean and Seurat. Later that year he took up a teaching post in the U.S. at Bethany College in Lindborg, Kansas, where he settled permanently. Bethany College had strong Swedish associations and Sanzéen taught Swedish, German and French language classes, as well as art classes. Remaining at the college all his working life, Sandzéen also continued to paint in his spare time and took up printmaking. He would produce 207 lithographs. Sandzén was particularly taken with the Smoky Hills area of Kansas and many of his motifs, both painted and lithographed, were inspired by the area.

The stone initialled. Dedicated in pencil With best wishes to Dale S Miller, 1954. Printed in black and cream? on thin wove. Faintly mount stained.