The youngest of the three Anderson brothers of Shearwater Pottery, Mac Anderson worked in a variety of media, including oil painting, watercolor, woodcarving, sculpture, and pottery. He was employed by the family’s Shearwater Pottery company along with his brothers for many years, helping to design and produce art pottery vessels and figurines.
Having trained at Tulane University and under artists Juan Jose Calandria and William Spratling in New Orleans, Anderson also painted throughout his life, often incorporating themes of nature.

The Andersons all enjoyed hunting, fishing, and other outdoor activities in the Mississippi and Louisiana countryside and took great inspiration from the scenery for their artwork.

The paint...