1950s AMERICAN OIL on CANVAS PAINTING "AUTUMN SCENE" by CARL WILLIAM PETERS (Jos

Up for sale from a recent estate in Honolulu Hawaii this circa 1950s American framed oil on canvas regionalist painting that is untitled but depicts an autumn scene by well-known artist Carl William Peters. The painting is from the estate of an East coast family - this is one of five C.W. Peters painting that will be listed in the coming days. The painting is in good original condition in an acceptable frame. The painting although only signed on the back stretcher was purchased directly from the artist and kept here in Honolulu for the past 40+ years.


Measurements:

Canvas 16 inches x 20 inches

Frame 20 inches x 24 inches


More about the artist:

From Rochester, New York, Carl Peters became an American Scene painter and regionalist. During his growing years where he was raised on a farm in Fairport, a Rochester suburb, he was exposed to a variety of artistic movements including the Hudson River School painters, tonalist tradition, Ashcan School, American impressionism, and early modernism.

At the age of sixteen, he declared himself an artist and reportedly painted every day for the rest of his life. After attending art school in Rochester, he enrolled in the Art Students League in New York City and spent several summers in Woodstock, New York, studying with Charles Rosen and John F. Carlson, the latter being his most influential teacher.

His forte was snowscenes, which he frequently painted in the Genesee Valley on his family farm near Fairport. He also spent many summers near Cape Ann, Massachusetts. He exhibited widely and won three Hallgarten Prizes from the National Academy of Design, 1926, 1928, and 1932. He was a camouflage artist in the army during World War I, and he also did WPA murals for the Federal Arts Project during the Depression years. In spite of the pervasive modernist movement, he remained true to a realistic style of landscape painting.

His work is in numerous museums including the National Museum of American Art, the Memorial Art Gallery and Strong Museum of Rochester, New York; the Fairport Museum of Fairport, New York; and the Rockport Art Association in Massachusetts.


Sources:

American Art Review, June 1999

Additional information and the correction about the family farm being located in Fairport, near Rochester, and not near Woodstock, New York, courtesy of Samuel Profeta, whose source is the widow (now deceased) of the artist.

Condition: 

Painting is in good unrestored condition - frame is acceptable