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- Title
A Daughter's Perspective: Meditations on Walter Inglis Anderson.
- Authors
Anderson, Leif
- Abstract
This article presents a daughter's perspective on watercolorist Walter Inglis Anderson's art and life: "My Ballet dream would dissolve in the wake of unmarried pregnancy, be replaced by a free-form dance inspired by Isadora Duncan. In the same year, Daddy’s breath would escape his body...perhaps to travel through air and merge with my breathing dance...never to leave me. My dance would forever after spring from stillness...I treasure a painting by my father called Resurrection Rabbit. It is beautiful; the colors are gathered like jewels to express one moment in the artist’s life. But I see it as a personal expression. I am sure of my father’s identification with the rabbit. His role is often that of a creature humbled by a vision, receiving grace through the natural world. How could he not believe in resurrection?...My father’s birds are not distant objects that I can quietly admire. They are lodged deeply in my soul, inciting sudden and irrational compulsions to take flight."
- Subjects
ANDERSON, Walter Inglis, 1903-1965; WATERCOLORISTS; FATHER-daughter relationship; DANCE in art; RABBITS in art; BIRDS in art
- Publication
Interdisciplinary Humanities, 2004, Vol 21/22, Issue 2/1, p94
- ISSN
1056-6139
- Publication type
Article