{"product_id":"the-art-of-walter-anderson-9781578066018","title":"The Art of Walter Anderson","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his sixty-two years Walter Anderson was stupendously productive. He created much of his art in obscurity  and only after his death in 1965 did the magnitude of his labors and genius come to light. His works teem in the thousands and take many forms-watercolors  oil paintings  drawings  block prints  figurines  pottery  and murals. He produced more than ten thousand pen-and-ink illustrations  as well as poems  stories  journals  and letters. Bringing together more than 175 full-color images  including works never before shown to the public  this catalog places Anderson in the context of his peers in twentieth-century American art and portrays him both as a major artist and a renaissance man. He was born in New Orleans in 1903  graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts  and spent his life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. He and his two brothers became artists under the guidance of their mother. Peter and Mac established Shearwater Pottery  and Walter created murals for the community of Ocean Springs. Walter Anderson was absorbed by poetry  music  art history  and natural science. A loner  he found his identity in the wilderness of pine savannahs and barrier islands along the coast. It was this natural wild that most imbued his art. To honor Anderson on his centennial  this representative sampling of his work reveals him as an eccentric genius who explored the profound order of creation and made spiritual excursions into the terra incognita of the mind and inner self. The contributors to this volume include noted art historians and curators from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington  D.C.  the daughter of Walter Anderson  and research staff at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art. They write in praise and in assessment of Andersons art  share insights into his mysteries and techniques  and raise public awareness of his significance. Patricia Pinson is curator of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs  Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953203142709,"sku":"ByrdShop_1578066018","price":131.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781578066018_8c2cebfb-c388-4faf-ad0d-516baecb1e73.jpg?v=1788181474","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-art-of-walter-anderson-9781578066018","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}