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Anderson, Guy
| Last Name: | Anderson |
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| First Name: | Guy |
| Dates: |
*1906 (Date of Birth)
*1998 (Date of Death)
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| Biography/History: | Guy Anderson was born in Edmonds, WA. Early on, Anderson was influenced by Greek sculpture, Oriental Schools of painting and art of the Northwest Coast Native Americans. Anderson was introduced to Asian art in the first grade, and his piano teacher had a large collection of Asian objects. As a child, he studied art at the Seattle Public Library. He was largely self-taught, and after graduating high school, studied with Eustace Ziegler, in Ziegler's Seattle studio. During his time with Ziegler, he learned to draw the nude figure. He studied in Long Island, NY on a Tiffany Foundation scholarship, under Gifford Beal and Kimon Nicolaides. After returning to Seattle, he became friends with artist Morris Graves. He painted in Mexico, California, Texas, the Cascade Mountains, the San Juan Islands, and in Alaska. While in Alaska, he spent several months painting at the base of Mount McKinley. He worked at the Seattle Art Museum for a few years, and taught children's art classes there. He was included in the annual Northwest Artist Exhibition for nine consecutive years, and won first prize in 1935. In 1936, he had his first one-person exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum. Anderson exhibited at the Rockefeller Center summer show in 1938. Anderson taught at the Works Progress Administration's Spokane Art Center from 1939 to 1941. He experimented with abstraction, cubism and found-metal collage during this time. He returned to Seattle in 1941. During the 1950's, Anderson taught in Seattle and La Conner, WA. In the summers, he taught at Fidalgo Art School, and in 1958, taught at Helen Bush School in Seattle. In 1959, he moved to La Conner permanently. Throughout his career, Anderson painted in oils, and on stretched canvases. In the late 1960's, he started using two-ply construction paper that was laminated with tar and reinforced with mesh as his canvas. Anderson liked the giant size of the construction paper, and painted on his studio floor. In 1975, he was offered a Guggenheim Fellowship, and used the money to study paintings in New York, Boston and WAshington D.C. He then traveled to Mexico City, Oaxaca and the Yacatan. In 1977, a major retrospective of his work was held in Seattle, at the Seattle Art Museum and the Henry Gallery. He was friends with Northwest artists Mark Tobey, and Kenneth Callahan.|Researched by Shellie Kafton, 2005 for Washington Art Consortium grant. |
| Related Objects: |
3920.1 (Print, Relief; Woodcut, Untitled, 1980)
4395.2 (Painting, Summer Wind I, 1980)
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