'Lantern Parade', serigraph by John Ingvard Kjargaard

John Ingvard Kjargaard is a painter, printmaker and collage artist who was born in Denmark in 1902. He came to the United States at an early age and studied art at Cooper Union in New York City. He continued his studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and later with Josef Albers at the University of Hawaii. While still a student, he went to work during summer vacation in the art department of a San Francisco engraving firm, which led to his start as a color etcher.

In 1937, he came to Honolulu under a year's contract as a photo-engraver working for Paradise of the Pacific. He became a permanent employee of the firm and remained in Hawaii.

The Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.), the Mint Museum of Art (Charlotte, North Carolina), and the Honolulu Academy of Arts are among the public collections holding work by John Ingvard Kjargaard.

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• Haar, Francis and Neogy, Prithwish, Artists of Hawaii: Nineteen Painters and Sculptors, University of Hawaii Press, 1974, 82-87.
• Warinner, Emily, Hawaii's Gift to the World. A short short story. Words by Emily Warinner. Drawings by John Kjargaard, 1950.