{{Short description|American artist (1928–2015)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2016}} '''Lennart Anderson''' (August 22, 1928 – October 15, 2015) was an American painter. His work has been featured at several major museums, including his first major show at the Delaware Art Museum in 1992. He taught on the art faculties of several universities, including Brooklyn College, the Pratt Institute, Yale University, Princeton University, and Columbia University.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/arts/design/lennart-anderson-painter-who-put-modern-twist-on-the-masters-dies-at-87.html?action=click&contentCollection=obituaries®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0|title=Lennart Anderson, Painter Who Put Modern Twist on the Masters, Dies at 87|author=William Grimes|work=The New York Times|date=October 19, 2015}}</ref>
Born in Detroit, Michigan, he studied at Cass Technical High School, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and the Art Students League of New York under Edwin Dickinson. Anderson was inducted as a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1977 and made an Associate of the American Academy of Design in 1982.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalacademy.org/academy/national-academicians/?na=A |title=National Academicians | National Academy | National Academy Museum |access-date=2014-12-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109021200/http://www.nationalacademy.org/academy/national-academicians/?na=A |archive-date=November 9, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> He was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship (1983),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/lennart-anderson/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Lennart Anderson|website=www.gf.org}}</ref> the National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant, and in 1961 was awarded the Rome Prize.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lymeacademy.edu/index.php/about/news/renowned_painter_lennart_anderson_selected_honorary_degree_recipient/|title=Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, a College of the University of New Haven about news renowned_painter_lennart_anderson_selected_honorary_degree_recipient|website=www.lymeacademy.edu}}</ref>
His paintings and drawings are included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Cleveland Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalacademy.org/academicians/lennart-anderson/|title=Anderson, Lennart|website=National Academy of Design|access-date=October 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100829/http://www.nationalacademy.org/academicians/lennart-anderson/|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> the Morgan Library & Museum;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/443566|title=Lennart Anderson {{Pipe}} Nude Study {{Pipe}} Drawings Online {{Pipe}} The Morgan Library & Museum|date=September 13, 2022 }}</ref> and the Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ld-collection.org/artist/works.php?code=ANDE|title=The Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection|website=www.ld-collection.org}}</ref>
In the fall of 2021, a retrospective of Anderson's work opened at The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nyss.org/exhibition/lennart-anderson-a-retrospective/|title=Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective - New York Studio School}}</ref> An 84-page hardcover catalog was also published, featuring essays from Paul Resika, Martica Sawin, Jennifer Samet, and Susan Jane Walp.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nyss.org/lennart-anderson-a-retrospective-catalog/|title=Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective - Catalog - New York Studio School}}</ref> A version of the exhibition subsequently traveled to The Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, opening in January, 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lymeacademy.edu/event/lennart-anderson-a-retrospective/|title=Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective - Lyme Academy of Fine Arts}}</ref> In June, 2023, The exhibition opened at the Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA) at Southern Utah University,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.suu.edu/suma/exhibits/2023/lennart-anderson.html|title=Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective {{Pipe}} SUU}}</ref> and then to the Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University in Georgia, February 1-April 12, 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.columbusstate.edu/posts/bo-bartlett-center-to-host-lennart-anderson-retrospective-beginning-feb-1/|title=Bo Bartlett Center to host Lennart Anderson retrospective beginning Feb. 1 {{Pipe}} Columbus State University News}}</ref> It has been announced that the exhibit will open at The John David Mooney Foundation in Chicago on March 27, 2025.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mooneyfoundation.org/lennart-anderson-a-retrospective/|title=Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective {{Pipe}} The John David Mooney Foundation}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://www.lennartanderson.com/ The Estate of Lennart Anderson website]
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