Jeremy Anderson (artist)

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Jeremy Radcliffe Anderson
BornOctober 28, 1921
Palo Alto, California, United States
DiedJune 19, 1982(1982-06-19) (aged 60)
Greenbrae, California, United States
Education San Mateo Junior College,
California School of Fine Arts
Occupation(s)Visual artist, educator
Known forSculpture
MovementAbstract art, Funk art
SpouseFrances Webster Whitney (m. 1947–1982; his death)
Children3

Jeremy Radcliffe Anderson (October 10, 1921 – June 19, 1982), was an American artist and educator, known for his wood sculptures. [1] [2] He was an influential mid-century fine art figure in San Francisco, California; [3] and taught classes at San Francisco Art Institute. [4]

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Early life, family, and education

Jeremy Radcliffe Anderson was born in 1921 in Palo Alto, California. [3] His father Frederick "Fritz" C. Anderson (1889–1963) was a professor of Romance languages at Stanford University. [5] [6] [7] Anderson graduated from Palo Alto High School. [8] He continued his studied at San Mateo Junior College (now College of San Mateo). [8] Anderson served in the United States Navy aboard the USS Gillis in the Aleutian Islands, during World War II. [8]

In 1947, Anderson married Frances Webster Whitney, from Ross, California and Inverness, California. [6] [9] [10] They had three children. [8]

Anderson graduated from the California School of Fine Arts (later known as San Francisco Art Institute), and studied under Robert Boardman Howard. [3] He was awarded the Rosenberg Traveling Fellowship in 1950, and traveled to France for a year. [8] [11]

Career

In his early career Anderson made abstract sculpture; [12] and in his later career his work started to have figures and humor, possibly a nod to funk art. [1] Anderson was a semi-finalist for public art in the Golden Gateway Project in Marin County in 1961, winning a cash prize. [13]

Anderson taught at San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). One of his students at SFAI was Louise David Lieber. [14] He was visiting faculty at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) in 1975. [15]

Anderson was a member of the Marin Society of Artists, and participated in their group exhibitions. [16] [17] He had a retrospective exhibition in 1967 at the San Francisco Museum of Art (now the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art); [18] and solo exhibitions at Braunstein/Quay Gallery (October 1970, and December 1978) in San Francisco. [19] [20]

Death and legacy

After struggling with cancer, he died on June 19, 1982, at the age of 60 at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, California. [8]

His work is included in museum collections, including at the University Art Museum at the University of California, Berkeley; [21] [22] the Pasadena Museum of Modern Art (now Norton Simon Museum, from the Betty and Monte Factor Family Collection), [23] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, [24] the Whitney Museum of Art, [25] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. [5]

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