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Harry W. Anderson

Harry W. Anderson, also known as Hunk Anderson, was an American businessman, art collector and philanthropist. He was the co-founder of Saga Foods Co., a food company for college dormitories. With his wife, Mary Margaret Anderson, he donated works of art to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and to the Anderson Collection at Stanford University.

Early life and career

Anderson was born on October 5, 1922, in Corning, New York. He was a first-generation American, as his father was born in Sweden and his mother in Norway. He graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. and it became a public company in the same decade, until it merged with Marriott. ==Art collection and donations==

Art collection and donations

With his wife, Anderson became a significant art collector in the 1960s. They first collected works of art by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Henri Matisse, Emile Nolde, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Marsden Hartley. Other works donated by the Andersons went to the Oakland Museum of California, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. To house and display this collection, a new museum was built directly adjacent to the Cantor Arts Center. ==Personal life and death==

Personal life and death

Anderson married Mary Margaret "Moo" Ransford in July 1950. They had a daughter, Mary Patricia (known as "Putter"), and they resided in Menlo Park, California. ==References==

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