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of Norway, Sweden, Russia, and
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The sketchbooks of her youth, with one drawing from when she was 14, are held by the
Trondheim Art Association as of 2018. According to art curator Rebeka Helena Blikstad, they show that, like many women artists of the period, she was interested in portraiture and interior painting, but also
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Many of Aasen's portraits were of activists for civil rights of the Sámi. Jonassen, for instance, was an activist who believed that the Sámi had no moral obligation to pay taxes to their colonial governments. After the conference, Valdemar
Lindholm for the magazine
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On 10 October 1935, about a month after her 60th birthday, Aasen died of a stroke. Eight years later, the art association of
Trondheim created a memorial exhibit of her work, and her family established an annual scholarship for young painters in her name:
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the Sámi and contributing to ignorance of their culture. Pushaw says that figures like
Finskog were not "passive participant" in the congress or their portraits, but active social reformists across the Nordic region.
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political rights activist who spoke of the Sámi's economic situation as not being due to any inherent poverty of the group, but as the result of an "oppressed situation". In Aasen's portrait, Finskog wears a green
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that stalled much of their progress; Aasen's work in Snåsa, according to Pushaw, "retained visibility" of Sámi political struggle for its students, and showed that progress was possible.
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two years later. Her gifted portrait of
Jonassen was also acquired by the Sámediggi; one of her portraits of him became a postcard, another was acquired by one of Norway's museums in
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parliament) in the late 20th century, where they remain as of 2021. Following her death, a scholarship for young artists was created by her family.
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