Linda Anderson (artist)

Linda Anderson (born 1941) is an American, self-taught folk artist who began painting when she was 40 years old.[1][2]

Linda Anderson
Born1941 (age 79–80)
Floyd County, Georgia[1][2]
Known forFolk art

Early life

Anderson grew up poor in Clarkesville, Georgia in a tenant farmer family. "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 she quit school and worked as a maid and a nurse's aide to help. 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]

Exhibitions

Anderson's first gallery show was in 1982.[3] Anderson has exhibited her work at the , and 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]

Collections

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, Georgia.[1]

References
  1. "Linda Anderson". MOCA GA. Archived from the original on 2019-04-07. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
  2. "Linda Anderson". Georgia Public Broadcasting. 28 May 2008. Archived from the original on 7 April 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
  3. Fox, Catherine (28 December 2003). "Painter merges nostalgia, 'edginess' The Atlanta Journal-Constitution". Barbara Archer Gallery. p. K1. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  4. "Mother and Child". whitney.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-07. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
  5. "The Banishment from the Garden of Eden".
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