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 (10 items)

Joseph C. Claghorn, (Nude Woman Fixing Her Hair), n.d., steel-faced copper etching plate, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Constance Claghorn, 1971.100
(Nude Woman Fixing Her Hair)
Daten.d.
steel-faced copper etching plate
Not on view
Joseph C. Claghorn, A Florida Park, before 1935, oil on canvas mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph C. Claghorn, 1970.320
A Florida Park
Datebefore 1935
oil on canvas mounted on paperboard
Not on view
Joseph C. Claghorn, The United States Capitol, ca. 1930-1939, drypoint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Constance Claghorn, 1971.93
The United States Capitol
Dateca. 1930-1939
drypoint on paper
Not on view
Joseph C. Claghorn, On Deerfield Street (Old House at Deerfield), n.d., etching on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Constance Claghorn, 1971.94
On Deerfield Street (Old House at Deerfield)
Daten.d.
etching on paper
Not on view