Stephen Warde Anderson: Attention to Detail
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Jan. 26, 2024 - May. 13, 2018
After attending University of Chicago for just a year, then serving in the United States Navy for four years, Rockford, Ill. native Stephen Warde Anderson decided he’d spend the rest of his life creating things.
His nontraditional route to uncovering his artistic talents, as well as his skills being entirely self-taught, make Anderson’s work all the more astonishing.
This exhibition focuses primarily on the naissance of Anderson’s career as an artist, during which time his portraits stand out as remarkably meticulous. Anderson’s first paintings each took well over a year for him to finish, speaking to his intense attention to detail, as reflected in the show’s title.
