an exhibition, together with Henning and . That winter, he contracted a throat infection, which was not considered serious. The day after New Year's, his wife was awoken by a strange noise and found him sitting in a chair. When he tried to get up, he fell over and died. A blood vessel had broken while he was coughing and the blood had choked him to death. He was buried in Gothenburg, at the Östra kyrkogården. A major retrospective was held the year after his death. In the late 1960s, after his widow was killed in an accident in France, his cabin was torn down and the doors (made familiar by one of his popular illustrations) were installed at the Parish Church in Starrkärr. In 1978, his self-portrait was featured in a series of postage stamps which also included Karl Isakson and . The high school in Älvängen is named after him as is the "Aroseniusvägen", a street in Södra Ängby, Stockholm. Another street in Gothenburg, the "Aroseniusgatan" was named after him in 1944. Selected works References Further reading Ivar Arosenius, Nationalmuseum exhibition catalog #410, Nationalmuseum & LiberFörlag, Stockholm 1978 Fredlund, Björn, Ivar Arosenius, Stockholm 2009, Biography @ the Svenskt biografiskt lexikon External links More works by Arosenius @ ArtNet Works by Arosenius @ The Athenaeum Kattresan, his best known picture book, digitalized at the Litteraturbanken 19th-century Swedish painters 19th-century Swedish male artists Swedish male painters 20th-century Swedish painters 20th-century Swedish male artists 20th-century Swedish male writers Deaths from choking Deaths from bleeding 1878 births 1909 deaths