Published June 12. 304 pages. Institute for Southern Storytelling at Mississippi College. $49.95. Born in New Orleans in 1903, Walter Inglis Anderson is the Gulf Coast’s most famous artist and one of the region’s most mystery wrapped individuals. A prolific watercolorist, he often painted in seclusion – in his Ocean Springs cottage, camping on coastal islands, on long bicycle trips – keeping his vividly impressionistic portraits of wildlife hidden from his family. Within years of his death in 1965, Anderson was being described as Vincent Van Gogh meets St. Francis.