Lennart Anderson, “Self Portrait” (1965), oil on canvas, 10 x 13 in. Private collection

Curriculum vitae

Born in Detroit, Lennart Anderson (August 22, 1928 - October 15, 2015) studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Cranbrook Academy, and at the Art Students League under Edwin Dickinson. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Academy. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Tiffany Foundation grant and the Prix de Rome.

Anderson’s work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Morgan Library & Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Delaware Art Museum, among others. He taught at Columbia University, Yale University, and served as a distinguished professor emeritus of Brooklyn College. The Estate of Lennart Anderson is a member of the Artists Rights Society.

Short documentary, 13 mins

The Vision and Art Project, an initiative led by A’Dora Phillips and Brian Schumacher, provides artist support and public education. It is supported by the American Macular Degeneration Foundation (AMDF), which produced this short documentary on Anderson’s life and career.