BILL ANDERSON was born in 1941, in Mankato, Minnesota. Bill was an art teacher for thirty-eight years in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and California. He has had both solo and group exhibits in the US, Italy, Holland, and Mexico. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Vincent Price Museum, Bowers Museum, Carnegie Museum, National Museum of Watercolor in Mexico, and the National Museum of Printmaking in Mexico. He was selected as Huntington Beach’s “Artist of the Year” in ’86 and is included in Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in American Education. He is included in the 2002 book “History of California Watercolor 1850-1970” by Gordon McClelland and Jay Last as well as a book on the art of Bill Anderson, 1984.