CARLOS ANDRESON

"KITE FLYER"

OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED

AMERICAN, C.1940

24 X 28 INCHES

ORIGINAL FRAME

SOLD

Carlos Anderson

1904 - 1978

Carlos J. Anderson (Andreson) was born in Midvale, Utah in 1904. 

Early in his career, he changed the spelling of his last name to distinguish himself from artists with the last name Anderson.

He was a painter, an illustrator, and a WPA artist who worked in Salt Lake, New York and San Francisco. He was a resident in Los Angeles in 1930.

Anderson studied at the University of Utah from 1924-1927, and at the Los Angeles Art Institute. He also studied at the Art Students League from 1930–32, at the Académie Julian 1932–33 and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris.

In 1933 he received a commission from the Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA) to paint a series of 24 historical Salt Lake buildings. Known as the WPA collection, the State of Utah holds them as part of its collection.   

In the late 1930s Andreson moved to New York and began painting in the American Scene style, a stylized form of realism. 

After World War II began, Abbott Laboratories commissioned Andreson to depict medical subjects at the stateside naval hospitals. He also had a twenty-year career as a graphic artist. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Museum of American Art, the Utah State Fine Arts Collection, and the Springville Museum of Art have his work as part of their collection.

He died in Salt Lake City in 1978.