30 Facts About Jane Peterson

Jane Peterson was an American Impressionist and Expressionist painter.

Jane Peterson painted still lives, beach scenes along the Massachusetts coast, and scenes from her extensive travels.

Jane Peterson's works are housed in museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jane Peterson was a fellow of the National Academy of Design and taught at the Art Students League from 1913 to 1919.

Jane Peterson was born in Elgin, Illinois, on November 28,1876, as the daughter of an Elgin Watch Company employee and a homemaker.

Jane Peterson did not receive any formal art training as a child.

Jane Peterson was accepted in the art department at Pratt in 1895 and Peterson borrowed $300 from her mother to study there.

Jane Peterson gained expert knowledge for painting techniques and composition from.

Jane Peterson lived in rooms in Montparnasse located around the corner from Gertrude Stein's salon, where on Saturday evening artists and art enthusiasts would gather to view and discuss Stein's seminal collection of modern art.

Jane Peterson traveled widely, painting from Maine to Florida and as far north as British Columbia.

Jane Peterson visited Europe annually and spent six months in Turkey in 1924.

Shortly after graduation from Pratt in 1901, Jane Peterson was appointed Supervisor of Drawing in Elmira, New York.

In 1912, Jane Peterson started teaching watercolor at the Art Students League and became the Drawing Supervisor of the Brooklyn Public Schools.

In 1925 at age 50, Peterson married a corporate lawyer, M Bernard Philipp.

Jane Peterson had the opportunity to study and paint flowers, writing a book, Flower Painting, in 1946.

Jane Peterson died on August 14,1965, on a trip to join a niece in Kansas.

Jane Peterson's canvases become more daring with color, as layers of loose brushstrokes combine to represent the shimmer of summer's light in southern Europe.

At Tiffany's invitation, Jane Peterson joined the artistic circle at Laurelton, his summer estate in Oyster Bay, Long Island.

In 1912, Jane Peterson went back to Paris, where she associated with the members of the American Art Association which included American Impressionist Painter Frederick Carl Frieseke.

Jane Peterson's work is hard to put into one or two single categories of art.

From 1910 through 1916, Jane Peterson became increasingly linked stylistically to fellow American, Maurice Prendergast.

For example, during World War One, Jane Peterson joined the war effort painting military portraits and patriotic scenes of women rolling bandages and folding blankets at the Red Cross Center.

Jane Peterson shared the stories she uncovered while traveling, and explored in her paintings the differences between the lives of others and her own life.

Jane Peterson relished her status as an independent, female American artist seeing the world and interpreting it for other Americans.

Jane Peterson exhibited at the Knoedler Gallery in New York City, and at Bendann's Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland.

From 1910 to 1914 Jane Peterson had her own exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.

Jane Peterson participated in many group shows such as the American Watercolor Society and the New York Society of Painters both in New York City and the Baltimore Watercolor Club in Maryland.

Three of Jane Peterson's works are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Jane Peterson was selected as the most outstanding individual of the year for her artistic achievement by the American Historical Society in 1938.

Jane Peterson's works were featured in Jane Peterson: At Home and Abroad, shown in 2018 at the Columbia Museum of Art, the Mattatuck Museum, the Long Island Museum of Art, and the Hyde Collection.