"Purchased with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance program/Oeuvre achetée avec l'aide du programme d'aide aux acquisitions du Conseil des Arts du Canada".
Courtney Villads Andersen studied fine arts at the Alberta College of Arts and the University of Calgary. He taught painting, printmaking, design and art history at the Kootenay School of the Arts Cooperative in Nelson, now part of Selkirk College.