beauty of Seal Beach. His ….
beauty of Seal Beach. His watercolor paintings are in galleries and museums all over the world. His Seal Beach pier watercolor painting was featured in the SUN Newspaper in 2018. Just recently, his watercolor painting of Huntington Beach’s iconic Golden Bear was selected by the Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University in Orange, California as part of a new exhibit called “Same Place, Another Time: Views of Orange County.” The exhibit is in the North Wing Galleries of the museum and will run through Sept. 7.
Bill Anderson was born in Mankato, Minnesota in 1941 and graduated from Minnesota State University. He moved to Long Beach after graduation and started his 38-year art teaching career, the last 25 years in Los Alamitos. In 1994, he opened the Anderson Art Gallery in Sunset Beach and is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary. He has painted Southern California for over 50 years. He is a recipient of a “Lifetime Achievement Award” by Marquis Who’s Who In America and in the Wall Street Journal. His work is recognized in Gordon McClellands’s book, “The History of California Watercolor 1850-1970.” Anderson has exhibited in many galleries and museums in several states and countries and has had more than 40 solo exhibits. He was a regular illustrator for Sierra Heritage magazine for 10 years and has illustrated six books related to the gold country era in California for Pulitzer-prize nominee author Craig MacDonald.
In the early 2000s, Anderson was commissioned by US Brigadier General James Combs, the commanding officer of the US Military Joint Forces Training Base (JFTB), in Los Alamitos to paint the base. His JFTB watercolor paintings, pastels, pen and ink drawings and sketches, 75 in all, are on permanent exhibit at the base, referred to as “The Heritage Series,” recording the history of the base.
The popular vote theme for this meeting is animals. People who are entering art for competition should arrive early. Judging will start at 6:30 p.m. People can also bring paintings for display if they do not want to enter in the competition.
The meeting is open to everyone, but the competition is for active Art League members only. There is no fee to enter in the art competition. For more information, call Marion Higgins at 562-296-8328.
—Larry Sioson
