Pekka Halonen, “Mowing Men”, Oil on Canvas, 1891
Pekka Halonen was a landscape and figurative painter, one of the major figures of the Finnish “Golden Age”. The son of a farmer, he first studied at Helsinki’s Finnish Art Society drawing school, and later traveled to Paris and Italy in pursuit of his artistic career. In Paris, he studied at the Académie Julian and later with Paul Gauguin. Gauguin encouraged him to find his own individual style, which would be based on a strongly nationalistic aesthetic.
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