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Portrait of Karl Anderson
Photograph by Peter A. Juley & Son, about 1920: the artist standing in a garden, left hand in his pocket, jacket open. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Painter · American

Attested lodger

Karl Anderson

The only painter one of whose canvases bears the name of the house: Tennis Court at Hôtel Baudy.

  • Dates1874 — 1956
  • NationalityAmerican
  • DisciplinePainter
  • Place of birthOxford, Ohio, United States

Biography

Karl Anderson was born at Oxford, Ohio, in 1874 and died at Westport, Connecticut, in 1956. The Smithsonian American Art Museum holds a photograph of him from the Peter A. Juley & Son collection.

Giverny

He stayed at Giverny several times between 1909 and 1911, in Frederick Carl Frieseke’s circle. He belongs to the colony’s second generation, which found the village already settled in its reputation.

Relation with the Hôtel Baudy

In 1910 he painted the hotel’s tennis court: spectators in the shade, a match, flowering shrubs. No other known work names the house in its title. His stay falls after the years covered by the surviving guest register.

Principal works

Tennis Court at Hôtel Baudy oil on canvas, 1910, 53.7 × 63.5 cm, signed at lower left “KARL ANDERSON”. A match on the clay court; in the foreground, in the shade of the shrubs, seated spectators, a blue parasol, a woman in a hat. Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Daniel J. Terra Collection.
Frederick Carl Frieseke oil on canvas, 1910, signed and dated lower right “KARL ANDERSON 1910”. Frieseke painting outdoors in a black-banded straw hat, yellow jacket and bow tie, palette on his arm and brush raised before his stretcher; behind him, among the greenery, a seated nude model also holds a brush.

Key points

  • 1874Born — Oxford, Ohio, United States
  • Giverny1909 — 1911, stays
  • 1956Died

Sources

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