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Life of Christopher Columbus: The Approaching the Magic Hour: Memories of Walter Anderson..

Walter Inglis Anderson Biography
(1903 - 1965)

By Mary Anderson Pickard


Walter, Peter and Mac

Walter Inglis Anderson was the second of the three sons born to Annette McConnell and George Walter Anderson in New Orleans, Louisiana.

He was nicknamed Bobby by his older brother Peter, and is often called Bob today by family members.

I researched Walter Anderson's life, read his Horn Island Logs, read his wife Agnes Grinstead Anderson's Approaching the Magic Hour, viewed his art and read art.

  • Synopsis.
  • Life of Christopher Columbus: The Approaching the Magic Hour: Memories of Walter Anderson.
  • From his early career to his final days drawing from his hospital window in New Orleans, Anderson explored and interpreted the world around him through art.
  • A series of love letters to his fiancée and wife Agnes Grinstead, written between 1930 and 1940, are notable for their passion and their reflections on his life.

    • He attended a military boarding school with Peter in Manlius, New York, from 1915 to 1917, and the New Orleans Manual Training School from 1919 to 1922. Walter's artistic talents were evident early in his life. His parents encouraged his early interests in nature, books, music and art during his New Orleans and Gulf Coast childhood.

    He attended the Parsons Institute of Design in New York from 1922 to 1923 and then attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1923 to 1928. Walter won several awards and scholarships while in Pennsylvania for his fine artwork including the Packard Award (1925) for his animal drawings, and a Cresso