Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Art museum in Ocean Springs, United States.
The Walter Anderson Museum of Art occupies a building on Washington Avenue in Ocean Springs, designed by architect Edward Pickard to match the style of the Shearwater compound. It links Walter Anderson's public work, the 3,000-square-foot murals in the Ocean Springs Community Center, with his private Little Room murals, discovered after his death in 1965 and installed in the museum. The collection also covers pottery by Peter Anderson, founder of Shearwater Pottery, and work by painter and ceramist James McConnell Anderson.
The Friends of Walter Anderson was chartered in 1974 to preserve his art and culture, raising funds and grants to build the museum on Washington Avenue on land leased from Jackson County. Mark A. Tullos, Jr. became first director in 1990, and the museum was dedicated on May 4, 1991, at a cost estimated at $1.3 million. Architect Edward Pickard, former husband of Anderson's eldest daughter Mary, designed it in the style of the Shearwater compound.
The museum's collection covers Walter Anderson's coastal plants, animals, landscapes and people alongside works by his brothers Peter, potter and founder of Shearwater Pottery, and James McConnell Anderson, painter and ceramist. Since 2016 Luther Dickinson has staged quasi-annual performances at the Ocean Springs Community Center, playing music inspired by Anderson's Seven Climates of Ocean Springs murals.
The museum is on Washington Avenue in Ocean Springs, on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It connects to the Ocean Springs Community Center, home to Walter Anderson's 3,000-square-foot murals, so allow time to see both buildings. The Little Room murals are installed inside the museum.
The Little Room murals were discovered only after Walter Anderson's death in 1965, then installed inside the museum. The building, dedicated on May 4, 1991 at a cost of about $1.3 million, links these private murals with his public 3,000-square-foot Ocean Springs Community Center murals next door.
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