Artist	Anderson, Guy, 1906-1998
Title	Robe ranch
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
Object 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".
Identifier	art_An231Ro
Digital 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
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Digital File Name	art_An231Ro.tif
Item Type	Artworks