biography of Guy Irving ANDERSON (1906-1998)

Birth place: Edmonds, WA

Death place: La Conner, WA

Addresses: La Conner, WA

Profession: Painter

Studied: Priv. classes; Tiffany Found fel., 1926

Exhibited: Eight-man show toured in Europe & Asia, US Info. Agency, 1956-1957; Fine Arts Pavilion, Seattle World's Fair, 1962; A University Collects: Oregon, circulated by Am Arts, 1967-1968; 73rd Western Ann., Denver Art Mus., 1972; The Drawing Society Nat. Exhib., circulated by Am. Fedn. Arts, 1970-1972; Mus. of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA, 1997 (solo). Awards: Music & Art Found Award, Seattle, 1952; first prize, Anacortes Art Festival, Wash., 1964; award of merit, Am. Inst. Archit., Seattle, 1965; Washington State Governor's Award, 1969, 1983; Guggenheim fel., 1975.

Work: Seattle Art Mus, Wash; Santa Barbara Mus, Calif; Munson Williams Proctor Inst. Utica, NY; Art Mus Greater Victoria, BC; Univ Ore, Eugene. Commissions: Mural (oil on wood), Seattle Opera House, 1962; cement & metal panels, Hilton Inn, Seattle; panel, workers, Edmonds Pub Libr; stone inlay, terrace, Seattle First Nat Bank; pebble mosaics, John H Hauberg Garden, Seattle.

Comments: Member of the Northwest group of painters called the Big Four", together with Morris Graves, Ken Callahan and Mark Tobey (see entries on each). An article about this group in Life Magazine was entitled "Mystic Painters of the Northwest. They translate reality into symbolic and distinctive art." Preferred media: oil, watercolor. Position: staff, SAM, 1933-1944; instr., Spokane Art Center, 1940s.

Sources: WW73; Holiday Mag (1959); Art in Am. (1962); Guy Anderson (Gear Press, Seattle, 1965); Trip and Cook, Washington State Art and Artists; Obituary, Antiques and The Arts Weekly, May 8, 1998, p. 67."

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