Robe ranch
Title
Robe ranch
Creator
Anderson, Guy, 1906-1998
Identifier
spl_art_An231Ro
Description
A painting using dark colors and earth tones , depicting a location where a number of Northwest artists lived and worked . Kenneth Callahan , Morris Graves , Mark Tobey and Guy Anderson stayed in cabins at Robe Ranch for as little as $25 a year (Kenneth Callahan interviews , 1982 Oct . 27-Dec . 19 , Archives of American Art , Smithsonian Institution) .
Biographical Notes
Guy Anderson was born in Edmonds , Washington in 1906 . At a young age , he was exposed to Asian art and Northwest Indian art and studied portraiture under Eustace Ziegler who taught private art lessons in Seattle . He became friends with Morris Graves and the two worked on the Public Works of Art Project for Washington State during the Depression in the 1930’s . He developed his distinctive painting style while living in La Conner , Washington . He died there in 1998 . He was one of the four painters LIFE magazine described as "Northwest Mystics ". The others were Kenneth Callahan , Morris Graves and Mark Tobey .
Date
1960
Decade
1960/1969
Subjects (LCSH)
Arts, American -- Northwest, Pacific -- 20th century. Anderson, Guy, 1906-1998 Northwest School of artists. Ranches -- Washington (State) Landscape.
Medium/Technique
Acrylic on cardboard ?
Image Measurements
10 1/2 in x 15 1/2 in
Local Type
Works of art
Artwork Type
Paintings
Notes from Object
On verso: details of the item upon which Anderson painted. It appears to be the back of a storage box for "Olympia Beer".
File Format
image/jp2
Digitization Specifications
75,719,176 bytes (working master file). Image capture by IO Color using a 25 mp camera (Sony A900 DSLR). Resized using Adobe Photoshop CS to 4000 pixels along the long dimension.
Contributing Institution
The Seattle Public Library
Collection
The Seattle Public Library Northwest Art Collection
Rights and Reproduction Information
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Source
uncat
File Name
art_An231Ro.tif
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