Guy Anderson

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Guy Anderson born in Edmonds, Washington, (November 20, 1906-1998) was an American painter from the Northwest School. 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 and later became two of the founders of the Northwest School of painting style. In 1939 he taught at the Spokane Art Center as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) a Federal Art Project during and after the Great Depression.

In 1975, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Northwest Mythologies: The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson by Sheryl Conkelton, Laura Landau, Tacoma Art Museum; University of Washington Press (2003)

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