Please join us to read this exciting new release! The Bicycle Logs of Walter Anderson promises good adventure, art, and perfect summer escape. Let’s get together in September to talk about it! There is a Museum dedicated to Walter Anderson in Ocean Springs, MS. https://www.walterandersonmuseum.org and there are many connections between the Anderson art family and our mission at the Fine Arts Preservation Society of New Orleans. Did you know that Walter Anderson attended the Museum School of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and won a Cresson European Traveling scholarship in 1927.

The Cresson European Traveling Scholarship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresson_Traveling_Scholarship#:~:text=The%20Cresson%20Traveling%20Scholarship%2C%20also,Fine%20Arts%20in%20Philadelphia%2C%20Pennsylvania.

“Walter Inglis Anderson was born in New Orleans in 1903. He studied at PAFA from 1923-28, winning a Cresson Travel Scholarship in 1927. After his trip to Europe he returned to his family’s estate in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He remained in that area until his death in 1965. He devoted his life to a series of watercolors and drawings of plants and animals of the Mississippi Gulf region.” Pennsylvania Academy Archives, https://www.pafa.org/sites/default/files/media-assets/MS.002_WalterAnderson.pdf

He was the subject of a retrospective in the Pennsylvania Academy’s Peale House Gallery in 1985. (See exhibition catalogue for more information. Also see the PAFA Library clipping file.

For ordering the new book The Bicycle Logs of Walter Anderson please visit https://walterandersonart.com/products/bicycle-logs?variant=45186423619751

The Fine Arts Preservation Society of New Orleans includes 3 other Cresson traveling scholarship recipients, Auseklis Ozols, 1963, Magtillt Laan, 1964, and Saskia Ozols, 2000.