1. Arnold Friberg was an American illustrator and painter noted for his religious and patriotic works.
18 Facts About Arnold Friberg
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Arnold Friberg is perhaps best known for his 1975 painting The Prayer at Valley Forge, a depiction of George Washington praying at Valley Forge.
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Arnold Friberg is well known for his 15 "pre-visualization" paintings for the Cecil B DeMille film The Ten Commandments which were used to promote the film worldwide and for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
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Arnold Friberg has been admitted as a lifetime member of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Arnold Friberg did a series of paintings depicting scenes from the Book of Mormon for Adele Cannon Howells, the Primary President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Arnold Friberg's family moved to Arizona when he was three years old, and he began drawing cartoons by the time he was seven.
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When he was seven, Arnold Friberg's parents joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Arnold Friberg was baptized a member of the LDS Church at age eight.
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Arnold Friberg has created more than 200 paintings depicting Mounties, and he is the only American made an honorary member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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In 1940, Arnold Friberg moved to New York City and studied with Norman Rockwell under the artist Harvey Dunn at the Grand Central School of Art.
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Arnold Friberg had an offer of the rank of captain to draw recruitment posters for the United States Army Air Corps but chose instead to go to the front.
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Arnold Friberg did use his art skills in combat to draw maps.
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Shortly after the end of the war and setting up shop in San Francisco, Arnold Friberg married Hedve Baxter.
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Arnold Friberg made it big creating a series of paintings depicting Western scenes for a calendar company in 1948.
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Arnold Friberg moved to Utah in 1950 in order to begin teaching commercial art at the University of Utah.
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Arnold Friberg's paintings included costume design for the main characters, for which he received a nomination for an Academy Award.
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In 1968, Arnold Friberg was commissioned by Chevrolet to create a series of paintings showing the greatest moments in college football, including The First Game, played in New Brunswick, New Jersey on November 6,1869 between Rutgers College and the visiting College of New Jersey, for use in their 1969 advertising campaign.
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Arnold Friberg died on July 1,2010, while recovering from hip replacement surgery in a Salt Lake City care center.