LENNART ANDERSON, NA

ANA 1979; NA 1982

Painter Lennart Anderson was born in 1928 and studied with Edwin Dickinson at the Art Students League and earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and has taught at Pratt Institute, the Arts Students League, Yale University, Princeton University, and Columbia University among others. He is represented by the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York. Recent one-person exhibitions include numerous exhibitions at Salander-O'Reilly Galleries; Rider University Gallery, NJ; Denver Art Museum; Delaware Art Museum; and Davis & Langdale Company, NY. Group exhibitions include Colby Museum of Art; Chauncy Stillman Gallery, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts; Widener Gallery, Trinity College; and the Center for Figurative Painting, NY. His work is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardeen; Cleveland Museum of Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts grant; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; and several awards from the National Academy.