9 FALL 2024 Brooklyn Museum and the Brooks Memorial Art Gallery in Memphis, Anderson’s works received little attention while he was alive. Through the years that has changed, and dramatically so, as demonstrated by documentaries, the Smithsonian exhibit, and books such as The Bicycle Logs of Walter Anderson. The MAX has always celebrated Anderson, including the “Visionary of the Gulf Coast” in its first class of Hall of Fame inductees in 2017. In addition to highlights on the artist available in Hall of Fame kiosks, one immersive gallery features a photographic image of Anderson’s beloved Horn Island that transitions into a spectacular watercolor, referencing Anderson’s “Fresh Water Waves” (circa 1945), courtesy of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art. As it does with other legendary Mississippi figures, The MAX sheds light on Anderson’s creative passion, noting how he might wade into the Gulf or climb a tree in search of inspiration. Among the Anderson quotes highlighted: “I’m an artist. It comes over me like a physical craving, like hunger.” “Rowing at Night,” Walter Inglis Anderson “Terror, the Little Devil,” Walter Inglis Anderson
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