Roy Andersen

Known as a western painter, Roy Andersen did paintings of Crow, Cheyenne, and Apache Indians.  He began his career living in Chicago and New York and working as an illustrator.  He did numerous covers for Time Magazine including portraits of Albert Einstein and Prince Fahd.  He also did illustrations for National Geographic magazine, and did a stamp series on Dogs and American Horses, and in 1984 and 1985, won Stamp of the Year Award.  As a muralist, he has filled commissions for the National Park Service, the Royal Saudi Naval Headquarters, and the E.E. Fogelson Visitor Center at Pecos National Monument in New Mexico.

To pursue his talent for painting, Roy Anderson went West, living in Arizona and settling in Cave Creek.  In 1990, he was voted official artist for Scottsdale’s Parada del Sol, the “world’s largest” horse-drawn parade commemorating the Old West.