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January Issue
2011
McKissick Museum in Columbia, SC, Features
Works by Walter Inglis Anderson
The University of South Carolina's
McKissick Museum in Columbia, SC, will host a unique exhibit,
titled Everything I See Is New and Strange, that captures
the essence of the natural world, literature and mythology. The
exhibit is the work of Ocean Springs, MS, artist Walter Inglis
Anderson, a creative genius who suffered mental illness and lived
in seclusion many years before his death in 1965. The exhibit
opens Jan. 15 and will run until May 7, 2011.
The show includes some 70 works of art with 37 of his exquisite
watercolors, as well as decorated and carved pottery, oil paintings,
linocut prints, wooden sculpture and pen-and-ink drawings.
Born in New Orleans and trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts, Anderson spent most of his life on the Mississippi
Gulf Coast. The painter, watercolorist and naturalist is recognized
for his huge artistic output, the superb quality of his work and
his ability to evoke a sense of place that is both naturalistically
accurate and universal in its poetic and artistic appeal. This
sense of place is a key element of the exhibition, which includes
quotations from the artist's works and excerpts from his famous
Horn Island Logs journal that vividly describe the barrier
islands off the Mississippi Coast.
Everything I See Is New and Strange is made possible through
the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information about Walter Inglis Anderson and the museum
that bears his name, visit (www.walterandersonmuseum.org).
For further info check our SC Institutional Gallery listings,
call 803/777-7251 or visit (www.cas.sc.edu/MCKS/).
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