Born: November 20, 1906, Edmonds, WA
Died: April 30, 1998 (age 91 years)

Guy Anderson was an American artist who was highly regarded in the Puget Sound. He is one of the signal artists who set the tone for The Northwest School and is considered one of the most important to emerge from the region. Anderson was a prolific painter who addressed the human figure as an emblem for all Mankind and natural forms as symbols for Man's place within the world. His work is in the collections of numerous museums including the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

“Using varying degrees of abstraction, Anderson has assembled a core of universal symbols, including the circle, a monist sphere with its associations of the womb/egg, cosmos, and void; the spiral as a symbol for creation and flow of energy; the ocean wave, which represents eternity and the eternal; a doughnut like shape, the pi, which encompasses heaven and creation in much the same way as the Chinese yin and yang contain the the two polarities of sexual union. Of particular interest to the artist is the purusa, or seed, which derives from the Brahmanic Hindu belief in the Mahapurusa– the beginning– when the Cosmic Man was sacrificed and divided up for the creation of all things. The artist uses the seed as that which waits to become, the slumbering kernel of what will be.”
– Bruce Guenther