Exhibit Calendar -Walter Anderson Museum of Art

An Artist's Album of Southern Collections

January 25 – May 6, 2007

An Artist's Album of Southern Collections is composed of some 120 works from over fifteen private collections from as far as Virginia and at least four public collections including the Ogden Museum in New Orleans, the Brooks Museum in Memphis, TN, the Mobile Museum of Art and the collection from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Louise Lehman, Artist and Collector

Jo Love Little Gallery
January 25th – April 1, 2007

The display of this important collection celebrates its entry from Extended Loan to the Permanent Collection of the Museum. Louise Lehman collected these pieces directly from Walter Anderson and the Anderson family throughout the mid 20th century, and it has been at the Museum since its opening in 1991. It contains some of the hallmark pieces - the Chesty Horse with Flaming Mane and the wooden animals - that were central to the 2003 Centennial exhibition at the Smithsonian in Washington, D. C.

Honored Women Artists of Mississippi: a Retrospective

Jo Love Little Gallery

April 5 – June 17, 2007

Every year, the Mississippi Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts honors artists who have achieved renown and excellence in their life’s work. They recognize women artists with strong ties to Mississippi in all media having celebrated Eudora Welty, Thalia Mara, Valerie Jaudon as well as the work of 20 other women. Their works will cover the gallery as a tribute to the high excellence of Mississippi women and their trailblazing forerunners in the Anderson women.

Eugene Martin: Joyous Excursion

Jo Love Little Gallery
June 22 – September 30, 2007

The skill and wry humor of this African-American artist is a striking celebration of cultural reflection. His work has been exhibited widely in Europe and has many connections to the work of Kandinsky, Klee, and Miro. Walter Anderson was also well aware of their work during the first half of the 20th century and both Martin and Anderson often reduce figures to an economical one or two lines.

Coast Friends: the Bonges and the Andersons

May 17 – September 16, 2007

The Mississippi Gulf Coast was prolific in art of the mid-20th century - significant works poured from the brushes of Dusti Bongé as well as Walter Anderson and others. Dusti learned much about painting from her husband, Archie, who died in his mid-30s, and was a close friend of the Anderson family. She was on the cutting edge of abstract expressionism from the 50s to the 70s with her work being exhibited with Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning at the Betty Parson's gallery in New York. But she chose to live and work at her in her native Biloxi. This exhibition highlights the variety and breadth of her work along with work of Archie Bongé and the oils of Walter Anderson.

An Introspective Mind: The “Mac” Anderson Centennial Exhibition

September 27, 2007 – January 6, 2008

The youngest of the Anderson brothers, James McConnell Anderson, was trained as an architect at Tulane University. Along with Walter and Peter, he worked at Shearwater throughout his life. His decorated pottery shows the influence of the precise mathematics of his studies along with an elegance of design. A strong sense of humor steals into the narratives of children and adults running around some pots, and the cameo impressions of the stevedores and cotton-balers of New Orleans on others. He could also build his own furniture and even built his own house from instructions on “rammed-earth” structures. This is a retrospective exhibition on the anniversary of his birth.

Exhibit opening dates are subject to change.
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