The American Swedish Historical Museum is one of only six museums in the United States with a collection of Anders Zorn's work. Zorn—born in Mora, Sweden but a frequent visitor to the United States and France—trained as a painter in Stockholm. Zorn is especially renowned for creating around 550 portraits of individuals such as United States presidents and Swedish royalty. By the 1880s, though, Zorn was drawn to the revival of copperplate etching. Zorn based many of his etchings on earlier portraits.
The American Swedish Historical Museum possesses a number of Zorn’s well-known etchings of American presidents Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Howard Taft, among a number of other figures. Central to Zorn's etchings are diagonal shading and cross-hatchings that emphasize the human form. As seen in the ASHM's collection of Zorn's work, Zorn's favorite images to reproduce were those of the women who often modeled for him!