Jane Peterson: At Home and Abroad

JANE PETERSON: AT HOME AND ABROAD

August 5 – October 14, 2018
Member Opening: Saturday, August 4, at 2 pm

This exhibition, the first museum exhibition of Peterson’s art in forty years, is comprised of over fifty paintings dating from 1907-1960. It offers a survey of the wide range of subjects Peterson produced and the styles in which she worked. Peterson recorded her travels abroad, first as a student to London, Spain, and Paris (where she was a guest at Gertrude Stein’s salon), then Venice and Yugoslavia, before heading to the more exotic Egypt and Turkey. Her home cities of New York, Palm Beach and Gloucester were an important part of her oeuvre as were pictures of women, usually in quiet reverie or at the dressing table. As well, floral still lifes and gardens make up a significant part of her output. All these subjects will be covered in the exhibition.

Peterson explored the innovative painting techniques of the early 20th century. She studied with Arthur Wesley Dow at New York’s Pratt Institute, with Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla and in London with Frank Brangwyn. Her style moved from Impressionist to Fauvist, and from realism to a modernist abstraction. The variety of works in the exhibit will demonstrate Peterson’s artistic journey.