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LENNART ANDERSON
American, (1928-2015)
"Still Life with Popcorn Maker I," 1981
oil on canvas
signed and dated on the reverse "L. Anderson 81"

oil on canvas
15 x 24 inches

  • Provenance: Davis and Langdale Co. Inc., New York, New York; Private Collection, Connecticut.
  • Exhibited: Davis and Langdale Co. Inc., New York, New York, "Lennart Anderson: Paintings," February 16 - March 16, 1985.
  • Literature: Mark Strand (ed.), "Art of the Real: Nine American Figurative Painters," (New York, New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1983), p. 155 (illustrated).

    Framed dimensions: 20 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches

    Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1928, Lennart Anderson studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and the Art Students League of New York under Edwin Dickinson. Anderson was inducted as a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1977 and made an Associate of the American Academy of Design in 1982.

    Described by the New York Times as one of the "most prominent and admired painters to translate figurative art into a modern idiom," Anderson was an American artist renowned for his mastery of tone, color, and composition, and for a teaching career that deeply influenced future generations of painters. Anderson belonged to a generation of intrepid painters – including Alex Katz, Paul Resika and Philip Pearlstein.

    In 1974, Anderson's gallery, Davis and Long (now Davis and Langdale), mounted a retrospective of his work. Three years later he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1992 he was given his first big museum show, at the Delaware Art Museum.

    He taught at several schools, including Pratt Institute, the Art Students League, Yale, Princeton and Columbia. He was most closely associated, however, with Brooklyn College, where he taught from 1974 to 2004.

    The current example "Still Life with Popcorn Maker I," 1981 presents the viewer with an array of ordinary objects on a kitchen table including a lemon, pastry and a pitcher, with the whimsical additions of an overturned berry container and a Jiffy Pop pan with its cover fully puffed out.

    In the early 2000s, after Anderson began experiencing macular degeneration of his eyes, he could paint only with extreme difficulty, but that did not stop him from painting. In a 2013 interview with A'dora Phillips, Anderson said "Because of my vision, I'm using my life now when I paint. I mean by that, all the painting that I've ever done." [1]

    [1] A'Dora Phillips with Brian Schumacher, "Seeing Along the Periphery, Getting at the Essence," in Painting Perceptions, November 14, 2013, https://paintingperceptions.com/seeing-along-the-periphery-getting-at-the-essence/








    Tags: listed artist, oil painting, still life, 20th century, modern / contemporary
  • Condition: in excellent original condition; unlined canvas; no restoration apparent under UV
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