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Circus Performers.
(I've been able to find the dates for only three of the paintings here, but I think most come from late in Anderson's career, circa 1920s-30s.) |
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Elephant Girl.
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Wet Night at the Circus.
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Under the Big Top.
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| Arabian Scene, magazine cover art. |
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Trick Rider (sketch).
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| Riders in the Spectacle, 1936. |
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Circus Nights.
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| Pageant, Exit Camel, circa 1930. |
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Life Magazine cover, 1913.
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The Circus Pageant.
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Victor Coleman Anderson (1882 - 1937), American painter and illustrator,
primarily known for his scenes of rural life and for landscapes, and whose work was featured in Life and other magazines of the early twentieth century. His
father, Frank Anderson, was a well-known painter of the Hudson River School,
and the son drew and painted from an early age, eventually entering the Pratt
Institute in Brooklyn. He produced a wide range of illustrations for
books as well as oil paintings, and he exhibited at the National
Academy. For many years, he lived and had his studio in White Plains, New
York, where he died at the age of fifty-four or -five.
His daughter, Joan Howe (1915 - 2005),
was a well-known watercolor artist who lived and worked in both New York and
Florida.
Love these paintings! His horses could practically prance off the page, and his use of light & shadow well done.
ReplyDeleteJeder traumte davon, in den zirkus zu fliehen. In Deutschland gab es die Zirkusse Busch, Roland, Roncalli, Sarrasani, Krone, Williams, Barclay and Renz. Heute verwendet Zirkus Roland tierhologramme anstelle von lebenden tieren. Diese farbenfrohen und dynamischen gemalde von Anderson erwecken und den wunderbaren Zirkus vergangen heitzum leben. ( erinnert an die zirkusbesitzerin Carola Willaims und ihren schutzling , den tierbandiger, Gunther Gebel -Williams) Ein leben nicht mehr. (vvs)
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