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He also won the Cresson Prize for traveling and used the money to travel to Paris in 1927 to study the cave paintings and Gothic cathedrals (A Symphony of Animals x-xi).
It was in 1927 that Walter Anderson met his future wife, Agnes Grinstead, and he began his strange courtship of her (Approaching the Magic Hour 1).
In 1922, with his mother’s blessing and his father’s scorn, Walter went to Parson’s School of Design in New York. It helps explain why he had to paint and why he felt it necessary to leave his family.
Approaching the Magic Houris an excellent book, and I enjoyed it a great deal. Approaching the Magic Hour.
APPROACHING THE MAGIC HOUR gives his widow's riveting memoir of the man himself, an artist whose existence in the extremes of individualism and isolation must have taxed the most consecrated of family values.
He was there for six weeks before pushing a bookcase over on his attendant and walking home (Approaching 68).
Their second child, Billy, was born in October of 1939. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 199
. Singapore: Palace Press, 1992
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Walter Anderson’s Mural
Walter Anderson’s most famous and most controversial work is, without a doubt, his little room in the cabin.
Her father disapproved of Walter, but they were soon married in April, 1933 (Approaching9).
Walter Anderson did not have much of a family life. When a new doctor, Dr. Mead, took over his case, Walter began to speak. During the first years of their marriage, he made Agnes use birth control because he didn’t want to bring a child into a world “so filled with pain and terror.” So he and Agnes lived together without children of their own in the cabin which had been given to them as a wedding present (Approaching the Magic Hour 13-14).
After his father’s death in February 1936, Walter Anderson had a mental breakdown and spent most of the years 1937-1940 in mental hospitals (Birds xii).
Walter was working summers at Shearwater Pottery, which had been started by his brother Peter in 1928 (A Symphony of Animals xi) Agnes had decided to spend her summer at her parents’ summer home, Oldfields, which was near Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The book then follows their wonderful and often rocky relationship until his death in 1965.
The reader is allowed to see what life with Walter Anderson was like, what kind of father he was, and how he dealt with the world around him.
How does a family survive when the father exists so far removed from society's norm?" Now out of print in hardback. There is even more speculation over what the woman figure on the chimney is, or whether or not he finished it. His was a unique genius: an absolute understanding of nature and the need to bond with it through painting.
Non-authorial Mother's Day ink gift inscription on front free endpaper; author's two-line ink inscription upon the half-title page: "To Peggy Ray | Agnes Grinstead Anderson." Interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Dr. Mead thought that Walter felt he had become impotent. He lived in the cabin and began spending more and more time on the offshore islands, particularly Horn Island.