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Artist	Anderson, Guy, 1906-1998
Title	Untitled
Description	An ink drawing/painting evoking shapes found in landscapes.
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	1968
Decade	1960-1969
Subjects (LCSH)	Arts, American -- Northwest, Pacific -- 20th century. Northwest School of artists. Anderson, Guy, 1906-1998 Landscape. Monochrome painting.
Medium/Technique	Ink on paper towel
Image Measurements	9 in x 11 in
Object Type	Paintings
Notes from Object	On verso: "Guy Anderson, 1968. donated by Wesley Wehr (1971). "Mat narrow show 1/8 white around pic, dark gray frame - Wes Wehr".
Identifier	art_An231Un
Digital Format	image/jp2
Digitization Specifications	66,094,384 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	For information about rights and reproduction, visit http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/rights
Source	uncat
Item Type	Artworks
Digital File Name	art_An231Un.tif