Editing Walter Inglis Anderson (section)

== Early life and education ==
Anderson was born in [[New Orleans]] to George Walter Anderson, a grain broker, and Annette McConnell Anderson, a prominent New Orleans family member who had studied art at [[Newcomb College]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.walterandersonmuseum.org/thesoultodare|title=The Soul to Dare|access-date=December 9, 2024|publisher=[[Walter Anderson Museum of Art]]}}</ref> He was the second of three brothers, the eldest being [[Peter Anderson (artist)|Peter Anderson]] and the youngest [[James McConnell Anderson|James McConnell "Mac" Anderson]].<ref name="JonesBio">{{cite web |last1=Jones |first1=Chris |title=Biography of Walter Inglis Anderson |url=https://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/mississippi-writers/walter-anderson |website=Mississippi Writers & Musicians |access-date=3 October 2021}}</ref>

As a child, Anderson attended St. John’s School in Manilus, New York until his schooling was interrupted at age 14 by World War I.<ref name="Logs">{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Walter Inglis |editor1-last=Sugg |editor1-first=Redding S. Jr. |title=The Horn Island Logs of Walter Inglis Anderson |date=1985 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |location=Jackson, MS |page=12 |edition=Revised}}</ref> He then transferred to the Manual Training School in New Orleans, Louisiana.<ref name="Logs" />

In 1922 he enrolled at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (now [[Parsons School of Design]]).<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1id8l6QxxHoC&q=walter+anderson+1922+New+York+School+of+Fine+and+Applied+Art&pg=PA48 |title = Form and Fantasy: The Block Prints of Walter Anderson|isbn = 9781934110256|last1 = Anderson|first1 = Walter Inglis|year = 2007| publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi }}</ref> After a year at Parsons, he won a scholarship to study at The [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]].<ref name="AAA">{{cite web | author= | year=2011 | title=Walter Inglis Anderson papers, (ca. 1915-1960) | publisher=[[Archives of American Art]] | url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/walter-inglis-anderson-papers-6436 | accessdate=16 June 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831061247/https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/walter-inglis-anderson-papers-6436 | archive-date=31 August 2017 | url-status=live }}</ref> Here (1924–1928) he would study under iconoclastic modernists like [[Henry McCarter]], [[Hugh Breckenridge]], and [[Arthur Carles]], winning a Packard Award for his animal drawing and a [[Cresson Traveling Scholarship]], which allowed him to spend a summer in France. While in France, Anderson was particularly impressed with cave paintings, which noticeably influenced his drawing style.<ref name="JonesBio" />