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Jane Peterson

Jane Peterson (1876 - 1965) was active/lived in Massachusetts, New York, Kansas, Illinois / France, Italy.  Jane Peterson is known for Town-landscape, genre, and still-life painting.

Born Jennie Christine in Elgin, Illinois, she officially changed her name to Jane Peterson in 1909 after her first success as an artist.  Her family was of humble background but certainly not poverty stricken.  She became famous for a wide range of works from landscapes to still-lives that blend Impressionist and Expressionist movements.  As a woman, her life was much more independent and adventurous than those of most of her contemporaries, and she traveled widely to paint including joining Louis Comfort Tiffany on a continental painting expedition in his private railway car.

Peterson does not belong to any particular school of painting, but combined techniques and styles from a variety of teachers and prevalent styles.  However, many of her early works were strongly Impressionist, much influenced by Joaquin Sorrola y Bastida, a Madrid painter under whose teaching she abandoned dark tonalities for the spontaneous methods of applying paint chara   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 16580 characters.]  Artist bio

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Research resources

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