Lennart Anderson (1928-2015) has become our modern-day Old-Master Artist, respected by painters, loved by his students, and admired by the many museums whose collections his work is in. Continue reading

His most impressive canvases are those populated by individuals, often friends, family members, or ordinary people encountered in his daily life. Through his painterly technique, he elevates these individuals to the realm of iconography, investing them with a dignified stature that transcends the limitations of the quotidian. Read here.

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“Anderson is celebrated for his mysterious and at-times disconcerting street scenes, and major work in this exhibit will pull viewers in, causing them to linger.” Purchase here.

Anderson’s current exhibition at the Lyme Academy helps us understand the significance of the portrait. Continue reading.

A small show traveling to schools elevates the late-20th-century American realist’s profile and deserves to be more widely seen. Continue reading.

It is the essential mystery of his realism, the foundation for a series of nuanced touches that add up to poetry. Continue reading.

In addition to several works featured at the exhibition’s opening at the New York Studio School, newly selected works that emphasize the artist’s sensitivity to portraiture and the intimate relationships he formed with his subjects will be featured in the Lyme Academy exhibition. Continue reading.

After a fall run at the New York Studio School, Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective is on view at the Chauncey Stillman Gallery - Lyme Academy of Fine Arts from January 14 through March 18, 2022. Described by the New York Times as one of the "most prominent and admired painters to translate figurative art into a modern idiom” Continue reading.

I am​ looking at a painting by the American artist Lennart Anderson, a still life from the 1960s. It’s a simple work: five objects arranged on a table top. A loaf of bread, a terracotta jug, a red pear, a funnel and a shape I can’t identify. The painting is a rare achievement of balance and spacing. Continue reading.

This episode is special, not only because it was recorded onsite, but also because I was able to view Lennart Anderson’s work in person all while getting a tour of the retrospective by curator, Rachel Rickert. Listen here

Street Scene is among the standouts of a small retrospective of Anderson’s painting now on view (through November 28) at the New York Studio School.1 There’s a lot to say about this painting, which, like most of Anderson’s art, wears its references to tradition on its sleeve. Continue reading

Counting high among the must-see shows this season is the Lennart Anderson retrospective, an exhibition of thirty-five paintings that fills the New York Studio School Gallery with luminous precision. Continue reading

There are at least two poles in Anderson’s work, poles that you see him gravitating towards and veering away from throughout his life: Anderson, the dogged and humble observer of nature, but also Anderson, the formal constructor and inventor. And while the former—with its pitch-perfect sense of tone, daylight, and atmosphere—has a life-affirming positivity; the latter has a brooding sense of mystery, accident, and impending chaos that only the underpinnings of geometry can keep at bay. Continue reading

This is the most comprehensive publication to date on the painter Lennart Anderson (1928-2015). Anderson was described by the New York Times as one of the “most prominent and admired painters to translate figurative art into a modern idiom.” Continue reading

…Anderson was interested in the interplay between reality and artifice. This reciprocity is what transports his still life paintings into a realm of exquisite particularities, especially when it comes to color, light, and texture. Continue reading

THE PAINTINGS of Lennart Anderson bring to mind, variously, Piero della Francesca, Poussin, Degas, Morandi, Balthus, Fairfield Porter, and ancient Roman frescoes. Some of these were inspirations, while others simply happened to share traits with him, perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not. The essential qualities of Anderson’s art are balance, grace, and clarity, and no work of art that has these can be derivative. Continue reading

A catalog designed by award-winning book designer Patricia Fabricant accompanies the exhibit. It includes four essays that, taken as a whole, contextualize Anderson’s work within the artistic milieu of his era and pay homage to his historical significance as an artist, teacher, and consummate craftsman of painting. Continue reading

Lennart Anderson, one of the most prominent and admired painters to translate figurative art into a modern idiom, died on Thursday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 87. Continue reading