Untitled
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
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