Venetian Summer
Jane Peterson adeptly combined style, forms, and techniques form a variety of teachers and prevalent movements of her era, including Impressionism, Fauvism, and Expressionism into a unique personal style. After studying with Arthur Wesley Dow in New York, she went to Paris to study with Jacques-Emile Blanche. Her loose brushwork and vibrant palette also demonstrates the influence of Sorolla, with whom she studied in Madrid for six months in 1909. Peterson spent extended periods painting in Europe, frequently returning to Venice where she captured the effects of light shimmering on the canals with vivid colors and expressive brushwork.
Artwork Details
- Title: Venetian Summer
- Artist: Jane Peterson (American, Elgin, Illinois 1876–1965 Leawood, Kansas)
- Date: n.d.
- Culture: American
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 23 1/4 × 29 3/8 in. (59.1 × 74.6 cm)
- Credit Line: Bequest of Helen Freeman Weber, 2017
- Object Number: 2019.135
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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