Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi

Love and Art at Shearwater

Christopher Maurer, Maria Estrella Iglesias, Walter Inglis Anderson

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University Press of Mississippi
30 April 2010

History of Art & Design Styles; Ceramic arts, pottery, glass; Ceramics: artworks; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography: arts & entertainment

Almost a century ago, Annette McConnell Anderson, a New Orleans society woman, vowed that her three sons would become artists. Turning her back on bourgeois life and abetted by her skeptical husband---a grain merchant---she bought twenty-eight acres of woodland on the Mississippi Sound. Beside a sleepy bayou, in the shade of towering pines and magnolias, she opened an art colony, one of the first of its kind in the South.

Backed by his mother's passion for art, her oldest son Peter Anderson founded Shearwater Pottery. Yearning """"to make Shearwater synonymous with perfection,"""" he drew the entire family into his adventure. His brothers, """"Mac"""" and Walter, made strange, wonderful pieces, though Walter Anderson eventually left the pottery studio to search for his own artistic path.

Drawn by the exquisite work of Shearwater Pottery, the authors discover that painting, poetry, and storytelling---much of it by strong, unforgettable women---are still an essential part of the family's daily life. Intimate diaries, letters, and poems lead the reader into a stormy, passionate, sometimes heartbreaking past. Meticulously researched and compassionately written, Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi gathers one family's eternal legacy of wisdom and beauty, the healing power of art, the consolations of writing and of memory, and the spiritual treasures given us by the natural world.

By: Christopher Maurer, Maria Estrella Iglesias
Illustrated by: Walter Inglis Anderson
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 333g
ISBN: 9781604734591
ISBN 10: 1604734590
Pages: 358
Publication Date: 30 April 2010
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher Maurer, professor of Spanish and chair of Romance Studies at Boston University, is the author of eight books, including the award-winning Fortune's Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson.|Maria Estrella Iglesias has taught at Harvard University and the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her collection of American art pottery was featured on Home and Garden TV and her jewelry on Sundays with Liz Walker (Boston CBS4) and Chronicle.