Throughout his lifetime, Guy Anderson absorbed Indian, Asian, and ancient cultures, which greatly influenced his artwork. His paintings are shrouded in spirituality; his works convey the tension between the overwhelming forces of nature and the human condition.
In 1953, Guy Anderson received national attention from an intensive article about the Northwest art scene in Life Magazine. Over the years, Guy Anderson developed a close relationship sharing ideas on religion and aesthetic with Northwest artist Morris Graves, and later Mark Tobey.
Guy Anderson received many awards and commissions, including the Governor's Art Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Seattle Opera House Commission. He has been included in exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum; the Henry Art Gallery; the Bellevue Art Museum; the Tacoma Art Museum; and the National Museum of Art in Osaka, Japan; and was honored at the Northwest Museum of Art in La Conner.
Guy Anderson passed away on April 30, 1998.
Education
Private Study with Eustace Ziegler, Seattle, WA
Solo Exhibitions
1991 Pulliam Nugent Gallery, Portland, OR
1990 “Between Night and Morning,” Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA (Also 1989, 1987, 1984, 1982, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1975, 1973, 1971 and 1970)
1989 1001 Fourth Avenue Plaza Building, Seattle, WA
1987 Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA
Valley Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
1979 George Belcher Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977 “Guy Anderson: Retrospective Exhibition,” Seattle Art Museum and Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1974 Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
1973 Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (Also 1968)
1965 Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle, WA (Also 1963, 1959, 1957 and 1954)
1963 The Kenmore Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1962 Smolin Gallery, New York, NY
Michael Thomas Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA
Orr's Gallery, San Diego, CA
1960 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (Also 1945 and 1936)
Tacoma Art League Gallery, Tacoma, WA
Harvey Welch, Portland, OR
1954 College of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
1952 Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, WA
Selected Group Exhibitions
1992 “It Figures, The Human Image in Art,” Index Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
1991 “25th Anniversary Exhibitions, The Early Years 1966-1972,” Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Masks or God,” St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA
1990 “Views and Visions in the Pacific Northwest,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
“NW X SW, Painted Fictions,” organized by the Palm Springs Desert Museum, traveling to Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT; Western Gallery, Western Washington University,
Bellingham, WA; Sarah Blaffer Campbell Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
1989 “100 Years or Washington Art: New Perspectives,” Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
“In Retrospect: Twenty Five Years,” The Governor's Invitational Art Exhibition, State Capital Museum, Olympia, WA
“Decade or Abstraction 1979-1989,” A Bumbershoot Visual Arts Exhibition, curated by Matthew Kangas, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA 1920-1960: Our Northwest Art History. Skagit Valley Museum, La Conner, WA
1988 “A Trip Through the U.S.A., Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
Contemporary Survey: A Visible Presence in the Northwest Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA
1987 Seattle Style, Musee des Beaux-Arts in Carcassonne, France.
A Cameo or Northwest Watercolors, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1986 Northwest Impressions: Works on Paper, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1985 Seattle Painting! 1925-1985, Bumberbiennale, curated by Matthew Kangas, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
East/West/East, The Public Art Space, Seattle Center House, Seattle, WA
Myth in Primitive and Contemporary Art, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
1984 Figurative Works, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Spirit or the Northwest: Seven Contemporary Artists, The John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Northwest Art from Corporate Collections, curated by J .F .Koenig, Waterfront Park, Pier 57, Seattle, WA
1982 Spiritualism in Northwest Art, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Pacific Northwest Artists and Japan, exhibited at the National Museum of Art in Osaka, Japan and the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1981 The Mind's Eye: Expressionism, Washington Year Exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Portollia '81, An Exhibition of Washington Artists, Kobe, Japan
Governor's Invitational, State Capital Museum, Olympia, WA (Also 1975, 1974, 1973, 1969, 1966 and 1963)
1980 West Coast: Art for the Vice President's House. San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1978 Northwest Traditions, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Group Exhibition, Olin Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
1977 Northwest '77, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1976 Two Centuries or Art in Washington, State Capital Museum, Olympia, WA
Northwest Priorities, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Artist Friends or Mark Tobey, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
1975 Northwest Masters, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Northwest Painters Invitational, Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Guy Anderson, Phillip McCracken, Anacortes Arts and Crafts Festival, Anacortes, WA
1974 Art of the Pacific Northwest. From the 1930s to the Present National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Skagit Valley Artists, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1972 Anderson, Lundin, Moss, Nicholson, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
1971 The Artist and the Sea, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
73rd Western Annual (Inaugural), Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
1970 Drawing Society National Exhibition, circulated by the American Federation of Arts
1969 Annual Exhibition of Northwest Painting and Sculpture, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (Regularly since 1926)
1966/1968 A University Collects: Oregon-Pacific Northwest Heritage, Sponsored by the American Federation of Arts, toured USA.
1966 Thirty-Five Seattle Artists: An Exchange Between the Sister Cities. Seattle and Kobe, Kobe Municipal Art Museum, Kobe, Japan
1964 Tacoma Selects, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA.
1963 First Governor's Annual Invitational Exhibition of Washington Artists, State Capital Museum, Olympia, WA
Northwest Art University of Puget Sound and Department of Art Tacoma, Kittredge Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA
1962 Holiday Exhibition, The Seligman Gallery, Seattle, WA
1961 Northwest Painters, Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Religious Dimensions, Art 1961, Brigham Young University Fine Arts Festival, Provo, UT
1960 Guy Anderson Exhibition, Tacoma Art League Gallery, Tacoma, WA
1959 Paintings and Sculptures of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon, Washington, British Columbia; The Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1957/1958 Eight American Artists, organized by US State Department and Seattle Art Museum, and circulated in Europe and Asia
1957 Guy Anderson with Leon Applebaum, Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle, WA
Vincent Price Collects Drawings, The Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
1947/1948 Ten Painters of the Pacific Northwest. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Awards and Grants
1987 King County Arts Commission's Honors Award
1983 Governor's Art Award
1975 Guggenheim Fellowship
1969 Governor's Award of Special Commendation
1929 Tiffany Foundation Resident Scholarship
Documentaries
1983 Upfront, Profile produced by Nancy Schewdop, KOMO TV
1982 American Sktline, National Public Television: contains portions of the KCTS
Channel 9 documentary, Three Artists in the Northwest (see below 1976)
1978 Northwest Visionaries, directors: Ken Levine and Nancy Keith
1976 Three Artists in the Northwest, production of KCTS Channel 9, Jean Walkinshaw, producer; Wayne Sourbee, cinematographer
Commissions
Bank of California, Seattle, WA
Bothell Library, Bothell, WA
Edmonds Library, Edmonds, WA
Hilton Inn, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Seatac, WA
King County Arts Commission, 1987 Honors Award Commission (Washington State Convention Center)
Opera House, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
Port of Seattle International Trade Center, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
Skagit Valley Courthouse, Mt. Vernon, WA
Seattle First National Bank, Seattle, WA
Selected Public Collections
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
The Bank of California, Seattle, WA
Betts Patterson & Mines, Seattle, WA
BogIe & Gates, Seattle, WA
Boymans-Van Beunigen Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Cairncross & Hempelmann, Seattle, WA
City of Seattle, Seattle, WA
The Danmor Company, Bellevue, WA
Davis Wright Tremaine, Seattle, WA
Foster, Pepper & Shefelman, Seattle, WA
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson, Seattle, WA
Junior League of Seattle, Seattle, WA
Karr Tuttle Campbell, Seattle, WA
The Lakes Club, Bellevue, WA
Meany Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Mills & Cogan, Seattle, WA
Minor & James Medical, Seattle, WA
Mundt, MacGregor, Rappel, Falconer, Zulauf & Hall, Seattle, WA
Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
PACCAR, Bellevue, WA
Pacific Northwest Bell, Seattle, WA
The Polyclinic, Seattle, WA
Preston, Thorgrimson, Ellis & Holman, Seattle, WA
Puget Sound Bank, Seattle, WA
Rainier Club, Seattle, WA
Safeco Corporation, Seattle, WA
Saint Martin's Abbey, Lacey, WA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
Seattle First National Bank, Everett, WA
Seattle First National Bank, Seattle, WA
Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA
Security Pacific Bank, Seattle, WA
Spokane Arts Commission, Spokane, WA
State Capital Museum, Olympia, WA
Swedish Hospital Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Tacoma Arts Commission, Tacoma, WA
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Washington Mutual Savings Bank
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Whatcom Museum of Art, Bellingham, WA
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