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Jane Peterson

Jane Peterson, American, (1876-1965).



Jane Peterson has an individual style, with bold color combinations and unique designs, and her canvases intermingle
Fauvist and Impressionist tendencies with academic drawing. From her earliest years, Peterson drew from nature and
took art lessons at the Elgin Public Schools. In 1895, she went to New York City to study art at Pratt Institute.
Before graduating in 1901, Peterson taught painting and became a popular teacher at Pratt and also became the
Drawing Supervisor of Brooklyn Public Schools. She studied oil painting with Frank Vincent Dumond, as she saved money
to travel abroad to study painting with Frank Brangwyn in London, Jacques Emile Blanche and Andre Hote in Paris and
Joaquin Sorolla in Madrid.

Internationally known writer and astronomer Percival Lowell exhibited Peterson's work in Paris and secured her first
one-woman exhibition in Boston which led to a near sell-out exhibition in New York City. By 1912, Peterson had many
rich patrons and became one the first female teachers at the Art Students League in New York City where she taught
watercolor painting.

Traveling and painting with Sorolla, Louis Comfort Tiffany, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam and Maurice Prendergast,
Peterson was in an influential art entourage and made it evident she could paint with the best of the male painters.
In 1925, The New York Times characterized Peterson as "one of the foremost women painters in New York". Known for her
colorful, post-impressionist paintings of Gloucester streets and harbor on Cape Ann; palm trees along the Florida coast;
street scenes in Paris, Istanbul and New York City; boating views in Venice, Italy and elsewhere, Peterson also flamboyantly
executed floral subjects and dynamic genre-like-portraits. She was given over 80 one-woman exhibitions and was recognized
as a uniquely talented painter of distinction before her death on August 14, 1965.

"At the Dock",
Signed lower left.
Oil on board, 11" x 14"

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