Herbjorn Gausta painting, ca. 1900.

Southern Minnesota Lake Scene by Herbjorn Gausta (before 1888) in the collections of the Vesterheim Museum in Decorah, Iowa.

Herbjorn Gausta altar painting for Greenfield Lutheran Church, ca. 1885–1895. Photograph by Sharen Storhoff.

Church altar painting by Herbjorn Gausta, ca. 1885–1895. Photograph by Sharen Storhoff.

Description: Scheie Lutheran Church altar painting by Herbjorn Gausta, ca. 1885–1895. Photograph by Amy Jo Hahn, 2017.

Painting by Herbjorn Gausta titled “Young Mother,” 1885.

Painting by Herbjorn Gausta titled “Grace Before the Meal,” 1880–1889.

Painting by Herbjorn Gausta titled “Grace Before the Meal,” 1880–1889.

“Washington Prairie Parsonage.” Oil-on-canvas painting by Herbjorn Gausta, c. 1880–1889. Used with the permission of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, Decorah, Iowa.

Portrait of Herbjorn Gausta by Robert Koehler, 1915.