Linda Anderson | |
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 Anderson at the Sautee Nacoochee Center in 2023 | |
| Born | September 3, 1941 |
| Known for | Folk art |
Linda Anderson (born September 3, 1941) [1] is an American, self-taught folk artist who began painting when she was 40 years old. [1] [2] According to NPR, she is considered "one of the foremost living memory painters." [2]
Anderson was born September 3, 1941, in Floyd County, Georgia. [1] She grew up poor in Clarkesville, Georgia in a tenant farmer family with four siblings. [2] [3] "Everybody worked. If you were able, you worked. I picked beans, pulled corn. I got my first rifle at 10. I shot rabbit and squirrel for our dinner." After her father died while she was in her teens, the family was forced to move to "a house with a dirt floor and no indoor plumbing"; she quit school and worked as a maid and a nurse's aide to help.
Previous to taking up painting she was a quilter. She was married and working as a nurse when she took up painting in 1980, at age 40, during a time she was caring for her sick daughter. [3]
In 1981 Anderson took her work to an art fair in Homer, Georgia. Atlanta collector Carolyn Caswell, impressed with the work, introduced Anderson to Judith Alexander, a gallery owner and folk art expert. [3]
Anderson's first gallery show was in 1982, arranged by Alexander. [3] Anderson has exhibited her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Asheville Art Museum in North Carolina, the Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, OH [1] among other venues. In 2004 she had a retrospective show at the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. [3]
Anderson is known for her memory paintings. [1] [3] Common subjects are vignettes from her childhood growing up in rural Georgia in the 1940s and 1950s, biblical subject matter, animals, and portraits of celebrities. [1] [2] In addition to her paintings, she creates with oil crayons on fine-grain sandpaper representations of the auditory-visual synaesthesia she experiences during severe migraine attacks. [1]
Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, [4] the High Museum of Art [5] and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. [1]
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