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Approaching the Magic Hour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Approaching the Magic Hour

  • Categories: Art

A widow's riveting yet poignant memoir of her marriage to a prolific creator, the extremely inspired Gulf Coast artist Walter Anderson, whose splendid art was heightened and enriched by his madness "Agnes Anderson has written an extraordinary account not only of Walter Anderson's joyous and tragic life in art but of her own difficult and rewarding commitment to her husband. In language that brings to vivid life the drama of the natural and human worlds in which she has lived, she tells a story that adds a new dimension to my understanding of courage, dedication, and imagination." - Ellen Douglas

Illustrations of Epic and Voyage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Illustrations of Epic and Voyage

  • Categories: Art

When renowned Mississippi artist Walter Anderson read Don Quixote or the Iliad, he heightened the intensity of his engagement with each by creating line drawings of the characters on typing paper. Each morning his wife, Agnes Grinstead Anderson, collected the many sheets the painter casually discarded in a night's reading and drawing. Along with thousands of paintings, sculptures, block prints, and writings, Walter Anderson (1903-1965) created over 9,500 pen-and-ink illustrations of scenes from Don Quixote, Paradise Lost, Pope's Iliad, and Bulfinch's Legends of Charlemagne. He also drew inspiration from such sources as Paradise Regained, Temora from The Poems of Ossian, The Rime of the Ancie...

The Horn Island Logs of Walter Inglis Anderson
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

The Horn Island Logs of Walter Inglis Anderson

  • Categories: Art

A revelation of the art and mind of a unique artist lost and alone in the world of nature, this beautiful book records Anderson's experiences on one of the barrier islands in the Gulf of Mexico over a period of twenty years. Revised edition.

A Symphony of Animals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

A Symphony of Animals

  • Categories: Art

A marvelous bestiary in art portraying Anderson's creative vision of the animal world

Dancing with My Father
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 182

Dancing with My Father

  • Categories: Art

A daughter's remembrance of life with the eccentric genius and artist Walter Anderson

Form and Fantasy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 174

Form and Fantasy

  • Categories: Art

A celebration of the phenomenal prints of a virtuoso artist

A Painter's Psalm
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 108

A Painter's Psalm

  • Categories: Art

The astonishing history of a brilliant treasure Walter Anderson created in his hidden room.

Robinson
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 78

Robinson

  • Categories: Art

An enchanting story for both children and adults about a stray cat transformed by a saucer of magical milk into a musical prodigy who performs at Carnegie Hall. Second printing.

Fortune's Favorite Child
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 434

Fortune's Favorite Child

  • Categories: Art

In this new biography, Maurer explores the troubled life of one of America's most prolific and idiosyncratic artists.

An Alphabet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 68

An Alphabet

  • Categories: Art

The letters of the alphabet are featured in linoleum block prints by the Mississippi artist, Walter Anderson.