Road to Rocky Neck, East Gloucester
Signed lower right: JANE PETERSON
Description
While abroad, Jane Peterson began using gouache, a portable fast-drying opaque watercolor that allowed her to work quickly en plein air while retaining a freshness of expression and color. Having mastered the medium, she taught watercolor at the Art Students League from 1913 to 1919 and joined a number of watercolor clubs both locally and nationally, in addition to sending oils and works on paper to the annuals of the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC. Her next years were rich and prolific; with her foreign travel curtailed during World War I, Peterson explored and painted throughout the country, making regular visits to the Massachusetts artists’ colonies at Martha’s Vineyard, Rockport, and Gloucester, as well as Ogunquit, Maine. Reviewers were impressed with the “knock you down fashion” of her Cape Ann dock scenes that she showed in New York and Boston, and in Gloucester at Gallery-on-the Moors and the North Shore Arts Association. Peterson also aligned herself with the important women’s associations of the day, joining both the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors and The Group, a circle of six established women artists who exhibited nationally between 1917 and 1919. These organizations offered fellowship and vital exhibition space during a transformative period in American history, as women aided both in the war effort and the struggle for women’s suffrage.
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Good. The painting was previously paste lined and mounted onto newer stretchers before it came to Vose Galleries, and there is minor in-paint at lower right below the signature, in frame rubbing, and in the diagonal cracking, and minor in-paint along the center right edge and in the upper right corner.
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Description
While abroad, Jane Peterson began using gouache, a portable fast-drying opaque watercolor that allowed her to work quickly en plein air while retaining a freshness of expression and color. Having mastered the medium, she taught watercolor at the Art Students League from 1913 to 1919 and joined a number of watercolor clubs both locally and nationally, in addition to sending oils and works on paper to the annuals of the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC. Her next years were rich and prolific; with her foreign travel curtailed during World War I, Peterson explored and painted throughout the country, making regular visits to the Massachusetts artists’ colonies at Martha’s Vineyard, Rockport, and Gloucester, as well as Ogunquit, Maine. Reviewers were impressed with the “knock you down fashion” of her Cape Ann dock scenes that she showed in New York and Boston, and in Gloucester at Gallery-on-the Moors and the North Shore Arts Association. Peterson also aligned herself with the important women’s associations of the day, joining both the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors and The Group, a circle of six established women artists who exhibited nationally between 1917 and 1919. These organizations offered fellowship and vital exhibition space during a transformative period in American history, as women aided both in the war effort and the struggle for women’s suffrage.
Provenance
Inscriptions
Labels
Exhibitions
Literature
Condition
Good. The painting was previously paste lined and mounted onto newer stretchers before it came to Vose Galleries, and there is minor in-paint at lower right below the signature, in frame rubbing, and in the diagonal cracking, and minor in-paint along the center right edge and in the upper right corner.
