1. Guy Anderson was an American artist known primarily for his oil painting who lived most of his life in the Puget Sound region of the United States.
22 Facts About Guy Anderson
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Guy Anderson's work is in the collections of numerous museums including the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Guy Anderson has been called "Perhaps the most powerful artist to emerge from the Northwest School".
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Guy Anderson grew up in a semi-rural setting north of Seattle, in the town of Edmonds, Washington, where he'd been born on November 20,1906.
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Guy Anderson's father, Irving Anderson, was a carpenter-builder and a musician.
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From an early age Guy Anderson was intrigued by other cultures; he was particularly fascinated by the woodcarvings of Northern Coastal native tribes, and by the collection of Japanese prints owned by his piano teacher.
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In 1929, Guy Anderson applied for and won a Tiffany Foundation scholarship and spent the summer studying at the Tiffany estate on Long Island, New York.
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On his return to Washington in the fall of 1929, Guy Anderson set up a studio in an outbuilding on his parents' property, and had paintings included in a group show at the Fifth Avenue Gallery in downtown Seattle.
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In 1937, Guy Anderson helped refurbish a burned-out house Morris Graves had discovered near the small town of La Conner, Washington, in the Skagit Valley, about sixty miles north of Seattle.
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Guy Anderson taught at the Helen Bush School in Seattle and Ruth Pennington's Fidalgo Art School in La Conner, while working at SAM, building stone mosaic patios for well-to-do patrons, and producing driftwood art for the commercial market.
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Guy Anderson lived in Seattle's University District, but spent much of his time painting at Graves' studio in La Conner or at the Callahans' summer place in Granite Falls, Washington.
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Guy Anderson rented a house on the edge of La Conner, where he found inspiration from the vast skies and natural settings of the surrounding area.
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Guy Anderson gathered rocks and driftwood, which he composed around his rustic home in various assemblages.
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Guy Anderson began painting large works on roofing paper purchased from a local lumber company.
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Guy Anderson always preferred a limited palette of mostly muted earthy tones, sometimes accented with brilliant red.
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Guy Anderson's works are often inspired by, and titled after, Greek mythology and Native American iconography.
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In 1966 Guy Anderson traveled to Europe for the first time with friends and fellow artists Clayton and Barbara James.
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Guy Anderson remained a pre-eminent artist with strong sales and major commissioned projects in the Pacific Northwest.
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Guy Anderson continued living in the house he had built on Caledonia Street, where he received visitors and continued painting into his late eighties.
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Walls hosted birthday parties for Guy Anderson which were well attended by collectors, fellow artists, and admirers.
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Guy Anderson remained lucid and enjoyed visitors at La Conner until shortly before he died on April 30,1998, aged 91 years.
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Guy Anderson's work has been included in exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum, the Henry Art Gallery, the Bellevue Arts Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, Washington, and the National Museum of Art in Osaka Japan.