Tor Kvarv
{{Short description|Norwegian artist (1953–2025)}}
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Tor Kvarv (6 February 1953 – 23 May 2025) was a Norwegian newspaper cartoonist and visual artist who worked with painting, drawing, and graphics.{{Cite web |title=Kvarv, Tor (1953 - ) [no] - KulturNav |url=https://kulturnav.org/2387dd27-ed01-4122-bfad-a41f9920832a |access-date=25 May 2025 |website=kulturnav.org}}{{Cite web |title=Guía para una escapada de fin de semana a Bodø, Noruega |url=https://www.visitnorway.es/que-ver-en-noruega/norte-de-noruega/bodo/escapada-de-fin-de-semana/?skip=12&sort=rankTitle®ionudf=5483 |access-date=25 May 2025 |website=www.visitnorway.es}}
Life and career
Kvarv began as a newspaper illustrator for Nordlands Framtid in 1976.{{Cite book |last=Nordeng |first=Jørgen |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Irie_Darlings/h8KfEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Tor+Kvarv&pg=RA1-PT84&printsec=frontcover |title=Irie Darlings: Xaymaca |date=3 November 2022 |publisher=Falck Forlag AS |isbn=978-82-93976-64-6 |language=no}} He contributed to Finansavisen, Drammens Tidende, Trønderbladet, Altaposten, and several other magazines. He began working with graphics, especially cold-point etching, in the 1980s.{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nordisk_kontakt/pBFpAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Tor+Kvarv&dq=Tor+Kvarv&printsec=frontcover |title=Nordisk kontakt |date=1996 |publisher=Statens reproduktionsanstalt |language=sv}} He had exhibitions throughout Norway and abroad, and has had artwork purchased by the National Gallery and the Norwegian Arts Council, including two ballpoint pen drawings in 1977, after an exhibition he participated in at the Oslo Kunstforening.{{Cite web |date=16 May 2008 |title=Ensfarget fargeklatt i flere format - an.no |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516185843/http://www.an.no/endelighelg/article3278724.ece |access-date=25 May 2025 |website=web.archive.org}}
He was involved in the founding of Nordnorske Bildende Kunstnere (Visual Artists of Northern Norway) in 1971.{{Cite web |last=Skau |first=Eivind |date=23 May 2025 |title=Tor Kvarv er død |url=https://www.bodonu.no/tor-kvarv-er-dod/s/5-159-169265 |access-date=25 May 2025 |website=Bodø Nu |language=no}}
Kvarv died at his studio in Bodø, on 23 May 2025, at the age of 72.{{Cite web |last=Skau |first=Eivind |date=23 May 2025 |title=Tor Kvarv er død |url=https://www.bodonu.no/tor-kvarv-er-dod/s/5-159-169265 |access-date=25 May 2025 |website=Bodø Nu |language=no}}
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Category:20th-century Norwegian artists