Guy Anderson

This article is about the American painter. For the British winemaker, see Guy Anderson (winemaker).

Guy Anderson born in Edmonds, Washington, (November 20, 1906-1998) was an American Abstract Expressionism painter. Along with Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, William Cumming, and Mark Tobey, they founded the Northwest School.

[edit] Early life

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. In 1939, Anderson 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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