My Ocean Springs: 2007 in Pictures

Gayle Petty-Johnson, Executive Director of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, stands in “The Little Room,” Walter Anderson’s inner sanctum discovered behind a padlocked door after his death in 1965. Travel guides featuring Ocean Springs begin their list of what makes Ocean Springs special with the museum, opened in 1991 to celebrate the works of Walter Inglis Anderson, and his brothers, Peter Anderson (master potter) and James McConnell Anderson (noted painter and ceramist). The watercolors, drawings, oils, block prints, ceramics, and carvings by the three Anderson brothers are all represented in the museum’s permanent collection, while traveling exhibits also are featured throughout the year.