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and the two traveled together to Norway in 1924. Todahl's father was from Norway and it gave him a chance to visit his father's home country while painting "marine scenes along the rugged coast of Norway". In Norway, Nutting bought a boat, and the two (along with author Arthur S. Hildebrand) decided
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to illustrate a marine battle during World War I by artist John Olaf Todahl, published
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