Jeremy Anderson

Jeremy Radcliffe Anderson (October 10, 1921 – June 19, 1982), was an American artist and educator, known for his wood sculptures. He was an influential mid-century fine art figure in San Francisco, California; and taught classes at San Francisco Art Institute.

Early life, family, and education Jeremy Radcliffe Anderson was born in 1921 in Palo Alto, California. Anderson graduated from Palo Alto High School. He continued his studied at San Mateo Junior College (now College of San Mateo). They had three children.

Career In his early career Anderson made abstract sculpture; and in his later career his work started to have figures and humor, possibly a nod to funk art.

Anderson taught at San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). One of his students at SFAI was Louise David Lieber. He was visiting faculty at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) in 1975.

Anderson was a member of the Marin Society of Artists, and participated in their group exhibitions. He had a retrospective exhibition in 1967 at the San Francisco Museum of Art (now the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art); and solo exhibitions at Braunstein/Quay Gallery (October 1970, and December 1978) in San Francisco.

Anderson believed sculpture was concerned with what he called "everyday mystical experience." In this respect it was like "the contemplation of nature or of a wrestling bout, the experience that comes with boats or sports cars, or gambling, hunting and many similar seemingly irrational pursuits that, once experienced, lead the individual back for more."

Death and legacy After struggling with cancer, he died on June 19, 1982, at the age of 60 at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, California. the Pasadena Museum of Modern Art (now Norton Simon Museum, from the Betty and Monte Factor Family Collection), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.