Here is a very beautiful original vintage oil painting of a young boy going sea fishing. Painted by the California artist DONALD GUNNAR ANDERSON (1927-). Anderson was best known for his oil paintings of children. Painted on masonite board measuring 16" X 29". The original frame measures 23 1/2" X 36 1/2". "Gunnar Anderson" exhibited mostly in the 1960's, however, I would guess the work is much older. Signed on the lower right "Gunnar Anderson". It has a very fine crazing with age and a nick off of the lower right corner. The paint is secure and intact and quite beautiful condition. The style and color is gorgeous.... VERY, VERY BEAUTIFUL!!!

ANDERSON, Gunnar Donald (1927)

Birth place: Berkeley, CA

Addresses: Sonoma, CA

Profession: Painter, illustrator

Studied: Calif. Sch. Fine Arts with Clifford Still; Art Ctr. Col. Design, BFA, with Lorser Feitelson.

Exhibited: Fifth Winter Invitational, CPLH, 1964; MH de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco 25th Annual, Society of Western Artists, 1968; Frye Mus., Seattle, Wash 1971; Calif. State Fair, Sacramento, 1971 (third prize); Mainstream 1972, Grover M. Hermann Fine Arts Ctr., Marietta College, Ohio, 1972; Lord & Taylor Art Gallery, NYC, 1970s. Awards: Best figure or portrait, 29th Ann., Soc. Western Artists, 1971; best in fine art Exhib. One, Soc. Art Center, Alumni, 1972.

Member: Soc Western Artists; Soc Art Center Alumni.

Work: Brown-Forman Distillers, Louisville, KY; Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, Calif.; Guildhall Galleries, Calif.; Galleries, Chicago, Ill.; Conacher Galleries, San Francisco, Calif.; Meredith Long Galleries, Houston, Tex. Commissions: Paintings of children, Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Bechtel, Piedmont, Calif., 1965; Mr. & Mrs. Lowell Dillingham, Hawaii, 1966; Mrs. Robert E. Norcross, Tyronza, Ark., 1968; Mr. & Mrs. Meredith Long, Houston, Tex., 1971; Mr. & Mrs. George Weyerhauser, Tacoma, Wash., 1972.

Comments: Preferred media: oil. Publications: illus., Oscar Lincoln Busby Stokes (Harcourt, Brace & World Inc, 1970).

Sources: WW73; Mrs Linda Hardwick, Collage," Educational TV, Memphis Community TV found, 1971-1972; TV interview, Memphis, Tenn, 1971; Don J. Anderson, "Paintings of children," Chicago Today (1972)."

This biography is drawn from the "Who Was Who in American Art" , the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.