The Painter From Bishop Hill - His Museum is in Tärnsjö

In his paintings artist Olof Krans documented Janssonist community construction and daily life in Bishop Hill, Illinois. The emigrant colony was established in 1846, and Erik Jansson and his followers made up the actual first, large group of Swedish emigrants.
Upon the colony's 50th anniversary in 1896 Krans donated major portions of his work to the colony, the larger part of which belong to the collection of the Olof Krans Museum in Bishop Hill, dedicated in 1988 by the governor of Illinois in the presence of Princess Christina.