Discipline: Visual Art

Chris Anderson

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Riviera Beach, FL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1992

Chris Anderson’s paintings address the themes of American cultural traditions and life in the contemporary home and neighborhood. Chris earned a B.A. in visual art in 1971 from Scripps College and an M.F.A. in 1973 from Claremont Graduate University. She has also studied at Pratt Institute of Art, and in Italy, at the Tyler School of Art in Rome. Her work has been shown extensively here and abroad and may be found in more than 50 public and corporate collections. A selected list of solo and group exhibitions includes the following: The Art Institute of Chicago; Kebble-Villa Museum, Germany; American Embassy, Moscow; Bilbao International Exhibition Centre, Spain; Muscarelle Museum of Art; Butler Institute; The Washington Gallery; Exit Art; Artists Space; The Society of the Four Arts of Palm Beach; Laguna Beach Museum; and The Rockefeller Arts Center; and Istitito San Lodovico in Palazzo Ranieri, Orvieto, Italy.

Studios

Cheney

Chris Anderson worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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