Carl Sprinchorn was born in Sweden and moved to New York at sixteen years old. He was a student of Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York City. A long-time intimate of Marsden Hartley, Sprinchorn lived and worked with Hartley in Maine for more than a decade. The relationships he developed in Maine, especially with Hartley, were a prevailing influence on his art. Sprinchorn was principally a landscape painter, although the inventive ways that he incorporated realism and modernism into his work served as a catalyst for further experimentation.