The Walter Anderson Museum of Art presents One World, Two Artists. John Alexander & Walter Anderson a new book published for an exhibition on view now through April 30, 2012 at the museum.
The work of Southern artists is often infused with a deep sense of place and time. Whether inspired by the small-town of the artist’s birth, the land, the waters – be it river, lake or sea – the music, the people or even the animals, that sense of place shows up in subtle, surprising or literal ways, unique to each artist. One World, Two Artists will attempt to show how the Gulf Coast was a shared source of inspiration to two native artists: John Alexander and Walter Anderson.
Born in 1945 in the coastal town of Beaumont, Texas, John Alexander grew up in a region heavily influenced by Cajun, Creole and African-American cultures. The natural environment of coastal Texas and Louisiana was an early and persistent inspiration for Alexander’s work.
Walter Anderson was born in 1903 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a painter, potter, writer and naturalist, who spent most of his life working in or around his family’s business, Shearwater Pottery, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. A small, undisturbed barrier island, Horn Island, became his refuge and main source of inspiration. Years later, John Alexander would visit Horn Island, also chasing this shared muse.
Through watercolors, oil paintings, drawings, prints and ephemeral materials, One World, Two Artists, explores the visual legacy of these two Southern artists, highlighting both their shared connection to a particular enviroment and their distinctive approaches to the subject.
Essays by Bradley Sumrall, Jimmy Buffett, Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan, and Bill Dunlap
160 pages
130 full-color illustrations
9-1/2″ w x 12-1/2″ h
Hardcover with jacket
Price: $55.00
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