Walter Anderson Museum of Art
(above: Walter Anderson, Self Portrait. Courtesy Walter Anderson Museum of Art)
Ocean Springs, MS
228-872-3164
http://www.walterandersonmuseum.org/
Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:
"A Face Only a Mother Could Love" Face Jug Pottery from the American South (7/5/08)
Horn Island: World of Space and Form (12/13/06)
An American First: Walter Anderson's Blockprints (1/27/05)
Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty among Artists of the Thirties (10/28/04)
Visual Harmony: Melody, Words and Birds of Walter Anderson, article by Patricia Pinson (7/28/04)
Visions of Nature: The World of Walter Anderson (1/23/02)
Daring From Within: The Art of American Women from the Sellars Collection (9/17/01)
Vanishing Point: The View from Horn Island (9/14/00)
The Private Eye: Walter Anderson from Individual Collections (3/14/00)
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts 50th Anniversary Traveling Collection Exhibition (3/14/00)
The Walter Anderson Museum of Art is located in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, just east of Biloxi. From Hwy. 90, turn south on Washington Ave. From I-10, take exit 50 and drive south three miles. Cross Hwy. 90 and continue past the second stop sign. WAMA will be on your left. WAMA hours and admission fees are available through the museum's website.
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