Jane Peterson

Known for her Impressionistic, colorful, depictions of landscapes and floral still lifes, Jane Peterson was a prominent American female artist born November 12, 1876 in Elgin, Illinois. She graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1901 and then traveled to Europe where she studied under many artists including Jacques-Emile Blanche and Joaquin Sorolla. She returned to the United States but continued to make yearly trips to Europe and North Africa throughout her life. Around 1912, she became associated with a group of American artists which included John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam and Maurice Prendergast, that latter of which would have a major influence on her work. In the 1920’s she was the subject of several solo exhibitions. In 1925, she married a wealthy New York doctor and began painting floral still lifes which became the focus of her career. In 1938, she was only the second woman to be named “the most outstanding individual of the year” by the American Historical Society. Peterson lived in New York, with a summer home in Ipswich, Massachusetts, for many years, and she died on August 14, 1965 in Leawood, Kansas. Her works are in the collection of many prominent institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the San Diego Museum of Art.

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