Bigleaf Magnolia Planting
- julian571
- Mar 30, 2021
- 1 min read
As part of the 30th anniversary of the Museum, we worked with donors, volunteers, and the Family of Walter Anderson to plant several of Walter Anderson's beloved bigleaf magnolias around his muraled Little Room, as he himself had done when the Little Room was a part of his artist's cottage at Shearwater Pottery. Special thanks to Joanna Shows of Columbia, MS for donating the trees, and naturalist Mark LaSalle and arborist David Minkler for consulting.
Walter Inglis Anderson, Walter Anderson’s Cottage, c.1955. Watercolor on paper. Collection of the Family of Walter Anderson
I find it meaningful that the museum not only preserves the work but also recreates the natural landscape associated with the artist's life. Replanting magnolias as Walter Anderson did makes the heritage more alive, not just to see Granny Game but to feel it with many senses.