Walter Anderson
Free Film Screening, Panel, and Reception with LSU MOA
Walter Anderson Screening and Reception with LSU MOA
A FREE EVENT!
Join LSU MOA and Manship Theatre for a screening of Walter Anderson: The Extraordinary Life and Art of the Islander, followed by a panel discussion featuring the filmmaker Anthony Thaxton, the artist’s son, John Anderson, and Mattie Codling, the Director of the Walter Anderson Museum in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The Film screening and panel will take place in Manship Theatre. A reception and book signing will follow in the LSU Museum of Art.
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Date & Time: Thursday, September 17, 2026, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
Film Screening of Walter Anderson: The Extraordinary Life and Art of the Islander.
7:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion featuring the filmmaker Anthony Thaxton, the artist’s son, John Anderson, and Mattie Codling, the Director of the Walter Anderson Museum in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
7:30 p.m.
Book signing and reception in LSU MOA on the 5th floor of the Shaw Center.
About The Film:
The fascinating life and work of Mississippi Gulf Coast watercolorist Walter Inglis Anderson is explored in this intimate and revealing film. Through poignant family interviews, never-before-seen artwork, and breathtaking images from Anderson’s beloved Horn Island, discover the genius who has been called "the South's greatest artist." From filmmakers Anthony Thaxton and Robert St. John.
About Walter Anderson
Walter Anderson was born in 1903 in New Orleans and died in 1965. He studied at the Parson's School of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he won several awards. He traveled extensively in Europe and Asia before adopting a reclusive existence, spending much of his time on his beloved Horn Island.
Anderson's output was staggering. He worked in oil, watercolor, pen and ink, and pencil. He sculpted in wood, crafted furniture, carved and decorated pottery, and cut large linoleum blocks for print making. He also produced stained glass and hooked rugs. For Anderson, art was not a product but a process, a means of experiencing the world. His drawing, prints, and watercolors celebrated the natural rhythms of the weather, the seasons, the sea, and the cycles of plants, flowers, and animals. His abiding interest in nature combined with his strong sense of design and color, his avid intellectual curiosity, and his bold imagination have made his works distinctive and timeless.
Genre: Documentary
Rating: NR
Year: 2026
Presented by: LSU MOA
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