SHE WAS A SALINAS GIRL: Artist Arline Jane Anderson (1920-2009)

September 2 through December 2011

            In the early 1900’s when Arline Jane Anderson was born, her Swedish immigrant parents Carl and Amanda Anderson used John Steinbeck's telephone to call the doctor. As an artist in the 1950's, Arline’s watercolor scenes of an earlier Salinas remind us today of our rural history. She recorded the Salinas Valley with its bucolic pastoral scenes of the Salinas hills and surrounding mountains that have been portrayed in many literary writings. It is with this nostalgia and a sense of loss that we view Anderson ’s collective works that includes chronicling the life and times of a turn-of-the-century female artist.