From Sandvika

In 1882 more than 28,000 people left Norway for America, more than in any other year of that century, and many of them made for the farmland of the Upper Midwest. This small landscape comes from those same years and shows the country they were leaving on an ordinary summer day. It is the shore at Sandvika, on the fjord just west of Kristiania, as Oslo was then called, with a dark timber house under a red roof among spruce and birch. Munch was still a teenager. He painted it in oil on a piece of cardboard about 20 by 25 centimetres, and its owner dates it to around 1882. Today it is in Minnesota, at St. Olaf College in Northfield, a school founded in 1874 by Norwegian immigrants. It came there with more than 2,000 other objects bequeathed by Richard Tetlie, a former student whose great-uncle had been the college's first president.