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Jane Peterson (1876-1965)
Jane Peterson is admired and praised for developing an individualistic style, bold color combinations, and for creatively constructing unique designs in masterfully rendered avenues of paint. Her canvases that intermingle Fauvist and Impressionist tendencies with academic drawing rank among her finest canvases and works on paper. Large canvases like “A Street In Gloucester” represent Peterson’s bold unique brushwork and unusual veracity. Peterson was named Jennie Christine upon her birth in Elgin, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Martin Petersen (1866-1956)
Martin Petersen was born in Denmark in 1866 and settled in New Jersey in 1884. He studied at the National Academy of Design and for fifty years supported himself as an anatomical artist for the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Despite the loss of one arm in a sugar mill accident as a boy, he produced a large body of etched work in the tradition of John Sloan [...] Click here to continue reading.
Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933)
Lilla Perry was much associated with Claude Monet and was instrumental in bringing French Impressionism and Monet’s style to America. She had a special relationship with Monet, having lived near him in Giverny, France. Although he never took students, he often advised her. Monet told Perry that her forte was “plein air” figures out of doors.
She introduced the first of Monet’s paintings to the Boston area and was [...] Click here to continue reading.
Sheldon Peck (American, 1797 to 1868)
Born in Cornwall, Vermont in 1797, Peck is known to have been painting portraits in Vermont in 1824. He then lived on a farm in New York around 1828. In the 1830′s he is known to have moved to Illinois where he established himself in the small village of Lombard near Chicago. Most of his Illinois work were double portraits in room settings. In these works he often [...] Click here to continue reading.
Raymond S. Pease (born 1908)
Raymond S. Pease was born in northern Vermont where riding, hunting, and fishing were a way of life for a boy. His early interest was captured by the adventure and romance of the West through reading and trips to his grandfather’s ranch. One of his dearest friends was the Kiowa Indian, Tahan. That he would be an artist of Western subjects seemed evident even then, for as a small [...] Click here to continue reading.
Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860)
Born in Pennsylvania in 1778, Rembrandt Peale was the second son and pupil of Charles Willson Peale. In 1797, he and his brother Raphaelle opened a museum of art and natural history in Baltimore, and later assisted his father in unearthing and assembling the first complete skeleton of a mastodon. After a sojourn as a painter of historical scenes, he established himself as a successful portrait artist. At age 17, he [...] Click here to continue reading.
Edgar Alwin Payne (1883-1947)
Edgar Payne was born in Washburn, Missouri in 1883. At the young age of fourteen he was completely on his own and traveled to Chicago where he briefly studied at the Art Institute. In 1911 he traveled west to Laguna Beach, California where he met his wife Elsie Palmer, also a painter in San Francisco. They moved to Laguna Beach in 1917, and Payne was the first president of the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Edgar Samuel Paxson (1852-1919)
Edgar Samuel Paxson was born in East Hamburgh, New York, the son of a sign painter. His fascination with the American West, in part inspired by the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, urged him westward, and he arrived in Montana one year after Little Big Horn. He served in the Spanish-American War, but after the war, and without any formal training, he turned to painting to earn a living. His [...] Click here to continue reading.
Paul Patton
Paul Patton (Ohio, 1922 to 1992) grew up in Rix Mills in Muskingum County, Ohio. After a career away from his hometown, he returned in the mid-1980s to discover that the small, rural town had been practically decimated, in part due to local strip mines. He turned to painting, and executed a series entitled Rix Mills Remembered in which he portrayed his happy childhood, growing up in Rix Mills in the 1920′s [...] Click here to continue reading.
Robert John Pattison (1838-1903
Pattison lived in Elizabeth, New Jersey and has an extensive record of exhibited works, including examples at the National Academy of Design and the Brooklyn Art Association, but remarkably few have been located to date. Many of his works related to the marshes and landscape of the New Jersey coast and New York harbor.
Throughout his career Pattison was devoted to the ideals of the American pre-Raphaelites with whom he [...] Click here to continue reading.
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