See art by the late, great Guy Anderson at exhibit in Lynnwood

LYNNWOOD — Art lovers who appreciate the so-called “Northwest School” of modern art may want to attend a reception Tuesday at the Lynnwood Convention Center in honor of the late painter Guy Anderson.

Deryl Walls of Anderson’s estate will be on hand from 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 20 at the center to talk about the artist and his work.

Everett’s Schack Art Center, which exhibited works by Anderson earlier this year, has arranged for some of Anderson’s abstract expressionist paintings, sketches and wood block prints to be shown at the convention center through December.

Anderson was born in 1906 and grew up in Edmonds.

During the Great Depression, Anderson and fellow modern artists Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves and Mark Tobey were given jobs by the Seattle Art Museum’s first director, Richard Fuller.

Promoted by Fuller, the artists garnered international fame in the years leading up to Life magazine’s story in 1953 about the “Mystic Painters of the Northwest.” Though they eschewed the idea that they formed a so-called “Northwest School of Art,” these painters significantly influenced what we consider Northwest art, even today.

Anderson’s work is included in many private and public collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. The Seattle Art Museum, Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds and the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner also are good places to see Anderson’s paintings.

He spent about half of his life in La Conner and died in Skagit County in 1998.

The book “A Catalogue Raisonne of the Block Prints of Legendary Northwest Artist Guy Anderson,” published in 2014 by Walls and Jase Ihler, will be offered for sale at the reception. The catalog is the first publication of Anderson’s work in 28 years.

The free reception Tuesday includes music and light refreshments. People who plan to attend are asked to email info@lynnwoodcc.com or call 425-778-7155.

Visitors also may view the current Guy Anderson exhibit during regular hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the convention center, 3711 196th St. SW, Lynnwood.