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Victor Coleman Anderson

Victor Coleman Anderson was born July 3, 1882 in Altamont, New York. New York. He was the son of lesser-known landscape painter Frank Anderson (1844-1891), who painted in the Hudson River Valley between 1860 and 1880. Although his father died when he was eight years old, Victor, like his father, was interested in becoming an artist at an early age.

In 1900, Anderson enrolled in the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and he was accomplished enough to go directly into the life-drawing class. Anderson studied with tonalist Birge Harrison (1854-1929) in Woodstock, New York during one summer and took classes from Henry Hobart Nichols (1869-1962) and Herman Dudley Murphy (1867-1945). In New York City, Anderson maintained a highly successful career as an illustrator. He illustrated for several magazines including "Life", "Woman's Home Companion", "Collier's", "Country Gentlemen", and "The Ladies Home Journal". Anderson illustrated two children's books, "Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus" and "Moonbeam Wish Book". Victor Anderson also had a very active career as a painter. He was a member of the Grand Central Art Galleries, where he exhibited, the Westchester Art & Crafts Guild, Chappaqua Art & Craft Guild, and the New Rochelle Art Association. Anderson exhibited at the National Academy of Design; Buck Hill Art Association, Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania. He also was a member of the Salmagundi Club and was awarded a prize in the club's 1934 and 1935 exhibition.

During the 1930s, Anderson briefly lived in Texas. However, he spent most of his life in New York State, settling in White Plains, where he died July 9, 1937.

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton

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