Artist

Anders Lunde

n.d.
Media - portrait_image_113227.jpg - 90157
Courtesy Whirligigs in Silhouette by Anders S. Lunde. 1989.
Active in
  • Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Biography

Anders "Andy" Lunde studied sociology at St. Lawrence University and became a teacher. He served in the Army during World War II, worked for the U.S. Public Health Service, and only took up wood carving after he retired in 1979. His wife gave him a book on weather vanes, but Lunde was attracted to the chapter on whirligigs and tried to make one. He made his first whirligig completely flat, as it appeared in the book, and then couldn't understand why it didn't move! He eventually figured out the design and made three-dimensional figures that spun, nodded, or flapped in the wind. Lunde moved into an assisted living center in North Carolina after his wife died, and continues to fill his apartment with new and increasingly complicated whirligigs. (Carolina Meadows press release, "Touch of Gray," May/June 2001)

Works by this artist (4 items)

Eugene Kormendi, Mother and Child, n.d., wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Eugene Kormendi, 1964.4.1
Mother and Child
Daten.d.
wood
On view
Eugene Kormendi, Head of a Young Man, 1940, marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Eugene Kormendi, 1964.4.4
Head of a Young Man
Date1940
marble
On view
Eugene Kormendi, Figure Group, n.d., wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Eugene Kormendi, 1964.4.3
Figure Group
Daten.d.
wood
Not on view
Eugene Kormendi, St. Francis of Assisi, n.d., wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Eugene Kormendi, 1964.4.2
St. Francis of Assisi
Daten.d.
wood
Not on view