Walter Inglis Anderson (1903 - 1965) American
Crayon and Pencil on Paper
Measure 5"in H x 7"in W and 10"in H x 13"in W with frame
Known for: Modernist genre-views painting, non objective, flora, pottery
Biography: When Hurricane Katrina struck in the Fall of 2005, most of the work of Walter Anderson, including thousands of watercolors, drawings, block prints, and manuscripts, was stored at Ocean Springs, Mississippi in a small, sturdy cinderblock building built after Hurricane Camille and designed to resist hurricanes. A smaller selection, including the pieces displayed at the 2003 Smithsonian Exhibition Everything I See Is New and Strange, was at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs. The collection at Shearwater was heavily damaged by the storm (the flood water surged into the storage building and submerged almost all of the art), but the Walter Anderson Museum of Art collection escaped damage, as did the Ocean Springs Community Center murals and the murals from Anderson's cottage at Shearwater. The Walter Anderson Museum reopened to the public on October 18, 2005. In the weeks after Katrina, the damaged collection was dried by volunteers and family members and moved to Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, for conservation and restoration. A good part of Anderson's writing had already been microfilmed by the Archives of American Art, and other manuscripts had been safely stored in the Mississippi Department of Archivs and History. Shearwater Pottery, the family business where Peter, Walter, and James McConnell Anderson had worked, was devastated by the storm. On the storm damage, see Linda Hales, "Buried Treasures: Storm's Toll on Culture," Washington Post, Sept. 10, 2005, and Debbie Elliott, "A Family of Artists Picks Up the Pieces," National Public Radio, Sept. 18, 2005.
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