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Harry Anderson
Harry Anderson - 1906-1996

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What Happened to Your Hand? by Harry Anderson
Item# 119
Christ with the Children by Harry Anderson
Item# 358
John Baptizing Jesus by Harry Anderson
Item# 354
Calling of the Fishermen by Harry Anderson
Item# 359
Christ Ordaining the Apostles by Harry Anderson
Item# 351
Sermon on the Mount by Harry Anderson
Item# 349
Triumphal Entry by Harry Anderson
Item# 350
Jesus Praying in Gethsemane by Harry Anderson
Item# 355
The Crucifixion by Harry Anderson
Item# 360
Mary and the Resurrected Lord by Harry Anderson
Item# 356
The Ascention of Jesus by Harry Anderson
Item# 353
The Resurrected Lord by Harry Anderson
Item# 357
The Second Coming by Harry Anderson
Item# 352
Divine Counselor by Anderson
Item# 228
The Consultation by Anderson
Item# 115
Prince of Peace by Anderson
Item# 461



Harry Anderson Biography and Info - See His Art in Our Store


Most info from: "Harry Anderson" biography page on "Illustrator Biographies" website (http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/anderson.htm)

Born in 1906 in Chicago, Harry Anderson was going to be a mathematician. He started college at the University of Illinois in 1925 and took an art course as an easy counterpoint to the math classes and discovered both a talent and a love for drawing. From such simple choices our lives are made. He married Ruth around 1940. She worked in the same building as Harry and posed for him on one occasion.

He and Ruth joined the Seventh Day Adventist church and in 1944 Harry was asked if he would contribute to their publishing efforts. Harry generously said yes and the next year his most famous image was crafted. "What Happened to Your Hand?" was done for a children's book in 1945 and immediately touched the hearts of that audience. The adults in charge of the publishing program were less enthusiastic; some even considering it near-blasphemous to show Christ in the present day. Cooler heads prevailed and Anderson spent the rest of his active career splitting his efforts between commercial assignments at his premium wages and religious ones done for love and for scale.

His art director at Review and Herald Publishing was T.K. Martin and it was his vision of Christ as a tangible presence in modern times that was shared and executed over and over again by Anderson. The inner peace that allowed Anderson to make his choice to contribute his time and effort at virtually minimum wage was evident in his paintings and in his depiction of Jesus. That dedication and calm is present in all of his work. As an important and popular illustrator, he's almost unique in the gentleness of his images. In 1994 he was inducted into the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame.

In the mid-Sixties, he expanded his religious horizons to include the Mormon Church [the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], for whom he created a mural for the 1964 New York World's Fair. It was done in oil paints which he'd abandoned early is his career due to allergies to turpentine. New thinner products allowed him to explore the medium again. He produced a dozen more oil paintings for the Mormons. He died in 1996 at the age of 90, the last of a generation of illustrators from The Golden Age of magazine illustration. It's almost certain that he was one of the last active members of that group. His work is still being circulated and appreciated today.

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