Agnes grinstead anderson biography of george michael

Annette Anderson had been schooled as a painter and encouraged all three of her sons to become involved in art. After failing to obtain a second Cresson Scholarship, Anderson returned to his family in the spring of His family had recently taken up permanent residence at their summer home in Ocean Springs, Jackson County, Mississippi, and it was there that Anderson helped decorate pots for his brother, Peter, who had just opened up a pottery shop on the property.

Shearwater Pottery was opened to the public in January and was run by Peter and his father, George Walter Anderson.

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The following summer, in , Anderson proposed to Agnes Grinstead and spent the next three years making clay figurines with his brother Mac, hoping to acquire a regular income to marry her. After spending a week in Oldfields for their honeymoon, Anderson and his wife returned to Shearwater to live in the cottage that was given to them as a wedding present from the Andersons.

This work was titled, Ocean Springs: Past and Present. Anderson was thirty-three years old. After the death of her father in February , Agnes and the children moved out of Oldfields in the fall of that year. The collection soon became a traveling exhibit sponsored by the American Association of University Women. Later that year, Anderson traveled to Costa Rica, using the proceeds made from the Brooklyn show, spending most of his time sketching the exotic plants and animals that he found there.

Anderson even brought some of these exotic plants back with him to Ocean Springs. Upon hearing about the exhibition of the work of a former Pennsylvania Academy teacher, Henry McCarter, Anderson traveled up to Philadelphia, in April , on his bike in order to see it. In December , Anderson went to visit Frank Baisden, an old friend, who had recently bought a grapefruit grove near Vero Beach, Florida.

Anderson spent more and more time at Horn Island, only coming back to decorate ten pieces of pottery for Shearwater Pottery for ten dollars a week.