Jesse Sylvester "Vet" Anderson (1875-1966), cartoonist, comic strip artist, illustrator, and sculptor, was born May 01, 1873 in Bear Lake, Manistee Co., Michigan and died in January 14, 1966 in Palo Alto California, burial January 17, 1966, Military Cemetary, San Bruno, CA. Father: David Anderson Mother: Esther Hicks. Married: abt. 1929 in London England. He got the nickname "Vet" because he was a veteran of the Spanish American War at the age of 23. He was a well-known cartoonist of the early nineteen hundreds. His drawings appeared in such magazines as Puck, Judge and Life. He had given that all up and turned to the new animated cartoons.

The Concrete bas-relief sculptures of the "Horse" and 'Horseshoe Pitcher' were done in 1937 by Jesse Sylvester "Vet" Anderson. He studied sculpture under Paul Landowski (1875-1961) www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Landowski in Paris. Landowski's single best-known work is the 1931 Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro . He was an artist on cartoons and comic strips for the Detroit Free Press and the New York Hearld Tribune, and New York Globe. Vet participated in the 1922 Salon des Artists Francais show in Paris. In the late 1910s, he worked with animators Dick Huemer and Raoul Barre in NYC on the Mutt and Jeff series. In the 20s, he worked with Paul Terry and Max Fleischer in NYC. In 1931 he came to California to work with Walter Lantz on 15 "Oswald the Rabbit" cartoons. In 1933 Vet worked on a 9 minute animated version of "The Wizard of Oz" in Canada, (Not the later famous 1939 version by MGM with Judy Garland). In 1937 he came to San Francisco to work on two bas-relief sculptures for the WPA Horseshoe Courts in San Francisco. Some of his work is in the Cartoon Museum, SF.

Vet is survived by his daughter Loma who remains a Bay Area resident. (2009) She has provided the photos of Vet below.

Artist, Thomas Sperow beginning the restoration of the damaged sculptures.

Thomas Sperow of Greco-Granite inpects the sculpture and salvages pieces for the restoration.

Note" Vet Anderson" signature and date "1937" in the lower left corner.

Hand Repair of leg fragments 9/09	Epoxy leg fragements 9/09	Clamping leg fragments 9/09
Replaceing repaired Fragments 9-9-09

From the www.imdb.com website:

1. The Wizard of Oz (1933) (artist)
2. A Jungle Jumble (1932) (animator)
3. A Wet Knight (1932) (animator)
4. Cat Nipped (1932) (animator)
5. Winged Horse (1932) (animator)
6. Let's Eat (1932) (animator)
7. Making Good (1932) (animator)
8. Beau and Arrows (1932) (animator)
9. Wins Out (1932) (animator)
10. Mechanical Man (1932) (animator)
11. Grandma's Pet (1932) (animator)
12. The Clown (1931) (animator)
13. The Fisherman (1931) (animator)
14. Hair Mail (1931) (animator)
15. Wonderland (1931) (animator)
16. The Hunter (1931) (animator)
    

There are an unconfirmed additional 9 Walter Lantz cartoon titles that Vet worked. Those titles are forthcoming.
This is a blog thread from:
http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_archive.html

Here's a cute Sunday strip from 1902. Hardy Hiram ran from 3/2 to 4/13/1902 in the New York Tribune. At first glance you'd think that the cartoonist failed to sign the strip, but if you look at the chicken on the right in the last panel you'll see that its tailfeathers spell out V E T.


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