Jane Peterson
American, 1876 – 1965
North African Scene, c. 1930
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left: JANE PETERSON
24 1/8 x 18 1/8 inches
Jane Peterson
American, 1876 – 1965
Oyster Boats In East River
Watercolor and Gouache on paper
Sight Size: 17 H. x 23 W. inches
Jane Peterson (American, 1876-1965)
Bridge of Sighs, circa 1920s
Watercolor and gouache on paper
12 ⅛ H. x 9 W. inches
Signed lower right: Jane Peterson
Provenance:
Robert Lozier
(probably) Helen Herndon Arthur (daughter of President Chester A. Arthur)
By descent
Peyton Randolph Harrison Pinkerton
Roxane Slaughter (stepdaughter of the above)
Exhibited:
Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, New York
In the summer of 1924 Jane Peterson traveled to Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey where she spent six months. Some of her finest paintings were executed during this expedition. Twenty-nine of these Turkish paintings were exhibited at the Ehrlich Gallery in New York in 1925. The exhibition was a critical as well as a financial success for the artist. In 1925 The New York Times characterized Peterson as “one of the foremost women painters in New York City.” During the course of her career she was given over 100 one woman exhibitions and was recognized as a uniquely talented painter of distinction before her death on August 14, 1965.
Jane Peterson is known for developing an individualist style marked by bold color combinations and unique designs. Her canvases combine Fauvist and Impressionist tendencies with academic drawing, but she does not belong to any one school of painting. Having carefully observed and absorbed widely diverse technical points from such talented and diverse artistic greats as Joaquin Sorolla and Maurice Prendergast, Peterson developed her own unique approach to painting. No one “ism” can define her work other than perhaps “Peterson-ism”. Her vision, her style, and her works are in a category all their own. Refinement and a harmonious balance between shape and color are solid components of her style. She developed an unerring sense of decorative design and a graphic use of color as linear pattern. She continued to steer her own individual course between innovation and elegance.
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