Biography from Claggett/Rey Gallery:
| Roy Andersen honed a natural talent upon the whetstone of formal study at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art and the Art Center School in Los Angeles. He achieved distinction in the crowded world of illustration art; producing work for such prestigious periodicals as National Geographic, Sports Illustrated and Time. He also executed commissions for everything from Hollywood studios to the U.S. Postal Service.
During a career that spanned more than thirty years, Andersen developed the discipline and capacity for hard work that is essential to all who harbor hope for artistic success. Finally, from the need to be free, to live and to paint according to his own choosing, he took the reins in hand.
A member of th Cowboy Artists of America since 1989, Roy and his wife Lui reside outside of Kerrville, Texas.
"Indians believe life moves in circles. I return to a love of horses and the native people who lived their lives on horse back. I paint Indians not just because they are picturesque, but because they are living symbols, that express the thoughts of free men and animals moving through a natural world. They are real, serious, and honest people looking for a connection between God and their own nature and the beautiful landscape around them.
"My love is the pure joy of playing with paint. After all an artist should take pleasure in his work. My next painting will be my best one, so all you can do is tell the tale as you know it and if you err, do it on the side of a great truth....beauty." |
Biography from Altermann Galleries and Auctioneers, Santa Fe I:
| “A long time ago a kid dreamed of being a western artist. Life is full of blind alleys and detours, but sometimes, just sometimes you end up just where you wanted to be all along. Painting the things you love.”
Roy Andersen honed a natural talent upon the whetstone of formal study at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art and the Art Center School in Los Angeles. He achieved distinction in the crowded world of illustration art; producing work for such prestigious periodicals as National Geographic, Sports Illustrated and time. He also executed commissions for everything from Hollywood studios to the U.S. Postal Service.
During a career that spanned more than 30 years, Anderson developed the discipline and capacity for hard work that is essential to all who harbor hope for artistic success. Finally, from the need to be free, to live and to paint according to this own choosing, he took the reins in hand.
Asked to join the CAA in 1989, Roy and his wife Lui now live on a small ranch near Ingram, Texas, where he has just moved into a new studio.
ReSources include: 2002 Cowboy Artists of America |
Biography from AskART:
| Known as a western painter, Roy Andersen is known for his paintings of
Crow, Cheyenne, and Apache Indians. He began his career as an
illustrator and then went West to pursue fine art. He has also painted
murals for the National Park Service, Pecos National Monument, and the
Royal Saudi Arabia Naval headquarters.
Andersen grew up on an
apple farm in New Hampshire and learned about Indian customs from his
many hours spent at the Chicago Museum of Natural History. His training
is from the Chicago Academy of Fine Art and the Art Center School of
Los Angeles.
Influenced by a cowboy uncle from Nebraska, he
often painted cowboy scenes that his art teachers said were passe. For
thirty years, he was an illustrator for National Geographic, Time magazine and Sports Illustrated and lived in New York and Chicago.
And
then he "went West looking for peace and a place where he could be his
own man in both his life and his art" (Prix de West, 14). He lived in
Arizona and Texas. In 1989, he was voted into membership into the
Cowboy Artists of America and is a resident of Cave Creek, Arizona.
Sources include:
Southwest Art magazine
Prix de West 2003 catalogue
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