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1874 Morning Sun, Ohio - 1956 Westport, Connecticut. Known for: Genre, landscape, figure, portrait and interior painting, teaching.
Born in Morning Sun, Ohio, near Oxford, Karl Anderson became a magazine illustrator and noted impressionist painter of genre, mythology, symbolism, and still life, much influenced by his exposure in... Read full biography
Born in Morning Sun, Ohio, near Oxford, Karl Anderson became a magazine illustrator and noted impressionist painter of genre, mythology, symbolism, and still life, much influenced by his exposure in Europe to painters in that style. He was the son of a harness maker and saddler and the brother of... Read full biography
Born in Morning Sun, Ohio, near Oxford, Karl Anderson became a magazine illustrator and noted impressionist painter of genre, mythology, symbolism, and still life, much influenced by his exposure in Europe to painters in that style. He was the son of a harness maker and saddler and the brother of famous playright, Sherwood Anderson. He first took art lessons from a local house painter in Clyde, Ohio, where the family moved in 1884. Seven years later he went to Cleveland where he worked for a... Read full biography
Born in Morning Sun, Ohio, near Oxford, Karl Anderson became a magazine illustrator and noted impressionist painter of genre, mythology, symbolism, and still life, much influenced by his exposure in Europe to painters in that style. He was the son of a harness maker and saddler and the brother of famous playright, Sherwood Anderson. He first took art lessons from a local house painter in Clyde, Ohio, where the family moved in 1884. Seven years later he went to Cleveland where he worked for a photographer, doing retouching, and also took night classes in crayon portraiture. Shortly after, he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago with John Vanderpoel and James Earle Fraser. He worked as an illustrator to pay his way at the Institute,... Read full biography
Born in Morning Sun, Ohio, near Oxford, Karl Anderson became a magazine illustrator and noted impressionist painter of genre, mythology, symbolism, and still life, much influenced by his exposure in Europe to painters in that style. He was the son of a harness maker and saddler and the brother of famous playright, Sherwood Anderson. He first took art lessons from a local house painter in Clyde, Ohio, where the family moved in 1884. Seven years later he went to Cleveland where he worked for a photographer, doing retouching, and also took night classes in crayon portraiture. Shortly after, he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago with John Vanderpoel and James Earle Fraser. He worked as an illustrator to pay his way at the Institute, which was a result of becoming friends with fellow student J.C. Leyendecker, whose position Anderson assumed in 1896 a... Read full biography
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Museums & Collections (9)
All MuseumsBrauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University
1709 Chapel Drive
Valparaiso, IN 46383Delaware Art Museum
2301 Kentmere Parkway
Wilmington, DE 19806High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309Mattatuck Museum
144 West Main Street
Waterbury, CT 06702Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271