Artist: Peto, John Frederick Painting: Ordinary Objects in the Artist's Creative Mind Introduction: 1887
Oil on canvas
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT.
American, 1854-1907
American painter. He trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1877-8), Philadelphia, where he became a friend of William Michael Harnett whose work was a dominant influence on his oeuvre. Peto maintained a studio in Philadelphia, exhibiting at the Academy from 1879 to 1887; he earned a living through occasional work as a photographer, sculptor and painter. After moving to Island Heights, NJ, in 1889,
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