Guy Anderson

Guy Anderson (November 20, 1906 – April 30, 1998) was an American performer known primarily for his oil painting who lived most of his energy in the Puget Sound region of the United States. His operate is in the collections of numerous museums including the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has been called "Perhaps the most powerful artist to emerge from the Northwest School".

Anderson's mature do its stuff often draws from a set of symbols (circle, spiral, egg, seed, wave) he developed from the investigation of religious, mythical, and philosophical sources. The symbols are frequently combined similar to the human figure. Beginning in the 1960’s he painted upon brown roofing paper that came in long rolls and allowable him to paint upon a grand scale.

Anderson said: "I gain permission to the Vedanta and the Vedas and I think not quite the order of the universe. The more we send men out into space, the more I accomplish we already are in space, floating out there. The collect order is preordained, in some miraculous way. I think everything creation is magical."