A sacred sculpture again sees the light of day in Northwest D.C.
Emily Morrison
Anderson grew up on Meridian Place NW, in a house just around the corner from where he would later make the sculpture. He was always artistic. In a way, his first commission was at Raymond Elementary School, when a teacher asked him to paint the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria on brown paper she’d stretched across a classroom wall.Said Anderson: “I discovered I was an artist when I got tired of matching up the paint with the numbers and started painting the way I wanted to paint the canvas.
Anderson was a founding member of the faculty at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. A custodian at Ellington recommended him for the New Hope Baptist Church commission. They wanted a mural. Anderson had other ideas. He wanted to include a sculpture in his portfolio. “That brought about a certain spiritual reckoning, with being in a church by yourself late at night and so forth,” he said. “Sometimes I had to just sit in the pew by myself and reflect on my spirituality.”Anderson had already reflected on something else: He didn’t think he was setting out to depict a. The historical Jesus wasn’t the blond-haired, blue-eyed figure depicted in many works of art. He would have been darker, Middle Eastern.
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