Tree (Diptych), 2011
American, based in Vancouver, BC
oil on panel, 24 × 18 in. (61 × 45.7 cm) each panel
On loan from the artist
Working from a photograph, Anderson made an oil painting of a tree that once grew in his backyard. After putting that first painting away, he then made a second at the same scale from the same photograph. He no longer knows in which order they were made.
About the Artist
Jonathan A. Anderson is the Eugene and Jan Peterson Associate Professor of Theology and the Arts at Regent College (Vancouver, BC). His scholarship explores the interrelations of art history, theology, and religious studies, with a particular focus on modern and contemporary art. He is the author of The Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art (2025), Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism (with William Dyrness, 2016), and many articles and book chapters on related topics, including “Modern Art and Religion” in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion (2021). Trained as an artist, art critic, and theologian, Anderson has a PhD from King’s College London and an MFA from California State University Long Beach.
Jonathan Anderson's Work
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- Art Collection
- Art Didactics
- Tree (Diptych)
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- Art Collection
- Art Didactics
- Tree (Diptych)