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{{short description|American artist}}

'''Magnus Colcord "Rusty" Heurlin''' (July 5, 1895{{spaced ndash}}March 10, 1986) was a [[Swedish-American]] artist best known for his pastel palette and depictions of [[Alaskan]] landscapes.
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|title= Fairbanks North Star Borough Deaths
|publisher= Fairbanks North Star Borough AKGenWeb Project
|accessdate= December 10, 2015}}</ref>

==Background==
Magnus Colcord Heurlin was born in [[Kristianstad Municipality|Christianstad]], [[Skåne County]], [[Sweden]]. He was the son of Berndt Felix Heurlin and Sophie Björklund. He was raised at the [[house at 2 Nichols Street]] in [[Wakefield, Massachusetts]] after the family returned to the U.S. from Sweden in 1896. He attended art classes conducted by [[Harold Matthews Brett]] at the Fenway School of Illustration in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
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|url= http://www.pulpartists.com/Heurlin.html
|title= Colcord Heurlin
|publisher=Pulp Artists
|accessdate= December 10, 2015}}</ref>

==Career==
Heurlin first came to [[Alaska]] in 1916, to [[Valdez, Alaska|Valdez]], traveling aboard the SS ''Northwestern'' from [[Seattle, Washington]]. He later moved to [[Utqiagvik, Alaska|Utqiagvik]] where he lived and painted, concentrating on the [[Inupiat people|Inupiat]], creating many works depicting [[whaling]] and [[hunting]]. He joined the [[U.S. Navy]] in 1917 and left the territory during [[World War I]], serving in [[France]]. Because of his extensive knowledge of [[armament]]s he attained a job as [[Charles Peshall Plunkett|Admiral Plunkett's]] orderly in the naval railroad batteries.

After the war, Heurlin lived for many years in [[Westport, Connecticut]], where he began his professional art career as an illustrator for magazines published in [[New York City]]. In the early 1930s he was selected as an artist for the [[Works Progress Administration|''WPA'']] Arts Project in Westport's public school buildings. He returned to Alaska around 1935, and moved outside [[Fairbanks, Alaska|Fairbanks]] to the gold mining village of [[Ester, Alaska|Ester]] with his wife, Anne Downer Severin (d. 1971). The artist worked on the gold [[dredge]]s near Ester for the Fairbanks Exploration (FE) Company at the Independence Mine. In 1942 Heurlin became an officer in the [[Alaska Territorial Guard]] which was organized to protect Alaska from Japanese invasion. After [[World War II]] he returned to his cabin in Ester, where he resided until his death at age 90.
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|url= http://www.alaskannature.com/Rusty_Heurlin.htm
|title= Alaska Artists: Magnus Colcord Heurlin
|publisher= Alaskan Nature
|accessdate= December 10, 2015}}</ref>

Heurlin taught the first art classes at the [[University of Alaska Fairbanks]] in the 1950s, and received an honorary doctorate from the university in 1971. He was also named to Alaska's 49ers Hall of Fame. Heurlin was known for his pastel [[Palette (painting)|palette]] and luminous skies, and influenced many later Alaska artists, such as [[Fred Machetanz]].
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|url= http://art-now-and-then.blogspot.com/2014/07/magnus-colcord-heurlin.html
|title= Magnus Colcord Heurlin
|date= 9 July 2014
|publisher= Art Now and Then
|accessdate= December 10, 2015}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web
|url= http://www.alaskannature.com/Fred_Machetanz.htm
|title= Alaska Artists: Fred Machetanz
|publisher= Alaskan Nature
|accessdate= December 10, 2015}}</ref>

==References==
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==Sources==
* [http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/cdmg3&CISOBOX1=Rusty Alaska Digital Archives- Rusty Heurlin]
* [http://www.reviewpainting.com/Magnus-Colcord-Heurlin.htm ReviewPaintings.com]

==External links==
* [http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/cdmg3&CISOPTR=582 Alaska Territorial Guard "Rusty" Heurlin, painter]

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