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Peter Anderson (artist)

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Peter Anderson gives shape to clay at the potter's wheel

Peter Anderson (December 22, 1901 – December 20, 1984) was an American ceramist and founder of Shearwater Pottery in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He was born in New Orleans to George Walter Anderson, a grain broker, and Annette McConnell Anderson, member of a prominent New Orleans family, who had studied art at Newcomb College, where she had absorbed the ideals of the American Arts and Crafts movement.

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