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Guy Irving Anderson

Guy Irving Anderson (1906 - 1998) was active/lived in Washington.  Guy Anderson is known for Abstract expressionist and male nude figure painting, assemblages, teaching.

Guy Anderson (November 20, 1906-1998), born in Edmonds, Washington, was an American Abstract Expressionismist* painter. Along with Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, William Cumming, and Mark Tobey, Anderson was identified in a Life magazine article as one of the "northwest mystics," also known as the Northwest School.

Anderson grew up in a semi-rural setting north from Seattle, and some of his early paintings portrayed his family home. A piano was an important presence in that house. As a child he used to commute to the Seattle Public Library by bus to study their art books.

In 1929, he won a Tiffany Foundation scholarship* and spent the summer studying at the Tiffany estate on Long Island, New York. That year he also met the painter Morris Graves, and they became lifelong friends. At one time these two traveled together to California, and they also spent time painting up near Monte Cristo in the North Cascades. In 1939, Anderson taught at the Spokane Art Center as   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5513 characters.]  Artist bio

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