Approaching the Magic Hour
178 pages, 6 x 9
35 b&w photographs
Paperback
Release Date:01 Mar 1995
ISBN:9780878058037
Approaching the Magic Hour
Memories of Walter Anderson
By Agnes Grinstead Anderson; Edited by Patti Carr Black
University Press of Mississippi
A widow’s riveting yet poignant memoir of her marriage to a prolific creator, the extremely inspired Gulf Coast artist Walter Anderson, whose splendid art was heightened and enriched by his madness
Agnes Anderson has written an extraordinary account not only of Walter Anderson’s joyous and tragic life in art but of her own difficult and rewarding commitment to her husband. In language that brings to vivid life the drama of the natural and human worlds in which she has lived, she tells a story that adds a new dimension to my understanding of courage, dedication, and imagination.
Agnes Grinstead Anderson (1909–1991) was the wife of famed Mississippi artist Walter Anderson. In addition, she was a poet, nature writer, and journal keeper. Patti Carr Black, former director of the Old Capitol Museum of Mississippi History, is an art historian based in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the editor of Eudora Welty’s Early Escapades and the author of Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980; The Southern Writers Quiz Book; and (with Marion Barnwell) Touring Literary Mississippi, among other works.
