Hedvig Erika (Vicken) von Post-Börjeson, born March 12, 1886 in Kleva, Alseda parish, died June 21, 1950 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, was a Swedish sculptor and illustrator, active in the USA from 1921.

 

She was the daughter of the mining engineer Hans von Post and his wife Anna Beda Matilda Norström, sister of the artist Eva von Post and aunt of the artist Kaj Piehl. She was married 1909–1920 to the sculptor Börje Börjeson, 1921–1939 to the architect George Oakley Totten Jr, with whom she had two children, George in 1922 and Gilbert in 1924 and from 1939 to the professor of theology Georges A. Barrois .

 

Vicken von Post-Börjeson studied at the Art Academy in Stockholm 1904–1908 and then with sculptor Gerhard Henning in Copenhagen; she also studied sculpture in Paris. She opened her own atelier in Stockholm and in the summer of 1915 she was employed at Rörstrands Porslinsfabrik where she had access to her own studio. There she sculpted figurines, often based on nude models, which were then cast in molds, joined together, retouched and dried. There were about 30 polychrome porcelain figures during the period at Rörstrand. Several of the figures were also cast in bronze 1917–1920 at Stender's publishing house in Copenhagen. She opened her own sculpture school in Stockholm in 1920.

 

Sponsored by Mrs. Wallenberg, she traveled to Washington USA to participate in an exhibition at the Woman's Chamber of Commerce in Washington. At the exhibition, the Metropolitan museum bought one of her works. She established herself as an artist in the United States and started a sculpture school in Washington DC. She made her exhibition debut at the Nordiska Kompaniet in Stockholm in 1915, then she exhibited in the Swedish art exhibition at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen in 1916, Liljevalch's September exhibition in 1919, Woman's Chamber of Commerce in Washington in 1921, Symbol of Flight in Washington in 1927, The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, the Brooklyn Museum, the Architectural League of New York, the Greater Washington Independent Expo, and the American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition.

 

Her public works include a statue of Jenny Lind in Battery Park New York, a statue of the Virgin Mary in Washington and decorations in several public buildings. Other notable works include "Symbol of Flight" (1927), a bronze sculpture that was presented by the women of Washington, D.C. to Charles Lindbergh;  and eleven limestone bas-relief panels depicting the history of transportation (1932) modeled for the façade of the main post office in Waterbury, Connecticut, a building designed by her husband. Several U.S. post offices contain New Deal art by Post Totten. Her plaster of Paris mural, "Pastoral of Spencer," was installed in the Spencer, West Virginia Post Office in 1938.

 

Her art mainly consists of still life and polychrome porcelain objects as well as illustrations. von Post-Börjesson illustrated ten children's books in 1904–1907, including the original edition of Laura Fitinghoff's Children from Frostmofjället and published her own book Pannkakan, Text och tenningern 1905, Snöflingornas saga 1907.

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Vicken von Post-Börjeson is represented at the Metropolitan museum in New York, Kunst Industri Museet in Copenhagen, Nationalmuseum[7] in Stockholm, Rörstrand's museum in Lidköping, Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., Newark Post Office, Metropolitan Church of Immaculate Conception in Washington DC, American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia. Her sculptures and figurines were signed V v Post B-n or V v Post.