$5,288
Jane Peterson (American, 1876-1968) Still Life with Zinnias and Marigolds Signed "JANE PETERSON" l. l. Oil on canvas, 23 3/4 x 23 3/4 in. (60.3 x 60.3 cm), in a signed and dated "wfscott 5-18-88" frame. Condition: Craquelure. N.B. After spending much of her younger years traveling extensively, Jane Peterson married in 1925, at the age of fifty. It was this personal change which caused her to switch from painting her well know landscape pieces to almost exclusively floral still lifes, much like the above piece. In an essay written for The Garden Magazine , September 1922 (and included in J. Jonathan Joseph's book Jane Peterson, An American Artist ), Peterson wrote that, "(t)he reason I paint flowers is because of all things in the world, I think flowers the most beautiful. Nature has expended on them a marvelous wealth of color - they scintillate the prismatic hues of the rainbow; they harmonize the pastel shades of the night; they are all that is delicate; all that is lurid, brilliant, bizarre...They have always been to me a reverence and a joy."
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2002-05-10
