A Life of Color and Conscience Born in Jönköping in 1888, Vera Nilsson moved through the world with an eye for the raw and the real. The daughter of a bailiff, she was raised in a home that valued education, receiving private drawing lessons that would eventually lead her from the technical schools of Stockholm to the studios of Paris. Her early training was structured, yet her spirit sought something more visceral. In 1912, a visit t…