Yrjö Vihtori Saarinen (13 December 1899 – 9 January 1958) was a Finnish self-taught painter. In 1955, he was awarded the Pro Finlandia Medal and granted an artists' pension by the Finnish government. The novelist

Mika Waltari Mika Toimi Waltari (; 19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel ''The Egyptian'' (). He was extremely productive. Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, ...

, who collected Saarinen's works, also helped him financially. At times, Saarinen supported himself by painting billboards and signs. Saarinen's work includes figure paintings,

portraits A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better re ...

landscapes A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...

and

still lifes A still life (: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, ...

. The

Hyvinkää Hyvinkää (; , ) is a town in Finland, located in the southern interior of the country. Hyvinkää is situated in the northern part of the Uusimaa region. The population of Hyvinkää is approximately . It is the most populous municipality in ...

Museum of Art in Southern Finland has a collection of about 200 paintings and 60 drawings by Yrjö Saarinen.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Saarinen, Yrjo Vihtori 20th-century Finnish painters Finnish portrait painters Finnish landscape painters Finnish still life painters 1899 births 1958 deaths