Description

Väinämöinen, Ilmarinen ja Lemminkäinen arrive to Pohjola by Joseph Alanen printed on a T-Shirt

About the T-Shirt

The Unisex Staple T-Shirt feels soft and light with just the right amount of stretch. It’s comfortable and flattering for all. We can’t compliment this shirt enough–it’s one of our crowd favorites, and it’s sure to be your next favorite too! 

• Solid colors are 100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton
• Ash color is 99% combed and ring-spun cotton, 1% polyester
• Heather colors are 52% combed and ring-spun cotton, 48% polyester
• Athletic and Black Heather are 90% combed and ring-spun cotton, 10% polyester
• Heather Prism colors are 99% combed and ring-spun cotton, 1% polyester
• Fabric weight: 4.2 oz./yd.² (142 g/m²)
• Pre-shrunk fabric
• 30 singles
• Side-seamed construction
• Tear-away label
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping
• Blank product sourced from Nicaragua, Mexico, Honduras, or the US

Joseph Alanen (1885-1920)

Joseph Alanen was a painter representing the Finnish Art Nouveau style . His paintings were mainly Kalevala- themed and represented the ancient Finnish decorative style .

Joseph Alanen was the son of a Tampere foreman. His brothers were co-operative influencer and mountain councilor Julius Alanen and county councilor Eelis Alanen. Alanen graduated in 1905 as an electrical engineer from the Tampere School of Industry. As a private student of Kaarlo Vuori, he studied drawing, painting and anatomy and continued his art studies in Stockholm.

He also studied in Berlin and Dresden from 1906-1910. His teachers there included Hans Dahl and Lovis Corinth (1858–1925). After returning to Finland, Alanen worked at the Tampere Craft Seminar on drawing and as a teacher of color theory and was also an art reviewer at Aamulehti in Tampere in 1912–1916.

Joseph Alanen died of the Spanish flu at the age of 34.