Robert J. Anderson
Robert J. Anderson (1934-2016) attended the Art Institute of Chicago, where in 1956 he was awarded the prestigious Logan Prize. After serving in the army, he worked by day as an exhibit preparator at the Field Museum of Natural History and painted at night. In the early 1960s, he ex-hibited his large figurative paintings at the Hyde Park Art Center, known for showing the Chicago Imagists, and had a one-man show at the Illinois Institute of Technology. After moving to New York in 1964, Bob continued to refine his intensely colorful figurative style.
In 1969, he moved to Cape Ann where he worked as a carpenter and raised a family with his wife, Peg. He was known in those years mainly as a cabinetmaker and carpenter rather than a painter, but he never gave up his artistic visions, often working in his studio late at night. In the 1980s and ’90s he turned toward abstraction, often playing off the forms of Cape Ann’s rocky landscape as well as machine parts and hand tools. He also filled sketchbooks with fantastical figure drawings in ink, created silkscreen designs on fabric, and made sculptures from bent wood, carved concrete, ce-ment-coated paper, and found objects. A passionate and adventurous artist all his life, Anderson created a thoroughly unique body of work.
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