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In April, Sissy moves to the Grinstead family home, Oldfields, in Gautier, MS with her father, Walter Anderson, and their two children, Mary and Billy. Walter Anderson builds a kiln in the carriage house at at Oldfields. Photos of Oldfields by Nola Nance Oliver, "The Gulf Coast of Mississippi," 1941. Bob fires a new series of figurines, but after a fire in the kiln burns the Oldfields carriage house to the ground. Drawings by Walter Inglis Anderson (c) Family of Walter Anderson. Mac marries Sara Lemon.
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Walter Anderson creates figurines inspired by fairy tales. (King and Lady, Walter Anderson Museum of Art). Shearwater Pottery exhibited at Lauren Rogers Museum of Art. Photo "Chesty Horse," Louise Lehman Collection. See "The Art of Walter Anderson.". Walter Anderson works on a series of watercolor studies for Shearwater plate designs, many of which are painted in underglaze decoration. At Shearwater. Exhibit of Shearwater at Allison's Wells art colony. Death of Annette McConnell Anderson.
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People and Places ].
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Shearwater Pottery: Dreaming in Clay. Patricia Grinstead dies in Ocean Springs. Not exactly a corporate operation! Leave money on table." Note left on door of Showroom, 1970s. Shearwater celebrates is 50th anniversary, and Peter Anderson is honored in Ocean Springs. WLOX documentary. Ocean Springs celebrates an annual Peter Anderson Festival. December 20. Peter dies in Ocean Springs. In the early 1980s, his daughter Patricia Findeisen becomes chief decorator. Plate by Christopher Inglis Stebly.
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George Walter Anderson's records of sales at Shearwater (Shearwater Archives). Peter marries Patricia Grinstead (April 16). Walter corresponds with her sister Sissy, a fine arts major at Radcliffe. In March 1931, two vases by Walter - Jazz Vase and Bacchante- are exhibited at the Municipal Art Gallery, Jackson. Photo from Patricia Pinson, ed., "The Art of Walter Anderson" (University Press of Mississippi, 2003).
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Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi:. Love and Art at Shearwater. Devoted to the History of Shearwater Pottery. Ocean Springs, Mississippi. By Christopher Maurer and Maria Estrella Iglesias. Documents from Shearwater Pottery Archives (with thanks to Marjorie Anderson Ashley and the Anderson family). Official Shearwater Pottery webpage. Walter Anderson Museum of Art. Katrina damage, ways to help. New book on Shearwater by Dod Stewart:.
