Charles Sanderson was a painter of abstract-realist Kansas landscapes. He born in Hamilton, Kansas in the heart of the Flint Hills. He studied architecture at Kansas State University, and then transferred to Emporia State University where he received a BA Degree in art education. At Fort Hays State University in western Kansas, he earned an MA Degree in Fine Arts.

He choose a career teaching art in Kansas public schools and was in Altoona, Lyons, El Dorado and then in Wichita for twenty-six years. From there he also taught at Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Friends University as well as the Wichita Center for the Arts and the Wichita Art Museum. He was a member of The Artists Guild of Wichita, and in 1988 he won t...