Biografie von Martin PETERSEN (1867-1956)

Birth place: Denmark

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, etcher

Studied: NAD

Exhibited: SAE (prize); LOC (prize); NAD, 1890, 1895 (silver med. & Hallgarten prize), 1898-99, 1905 (Hallgarten prize), 1907, 1940; PAFA Ann., 1899, 1904-10; CI, 1905-08, 1911, 1943; NYWCC, 1906 (prize), SC, 1906, 1907 (Inness prize); Corcoran Gal annual, 1907; Salons of Am., 1934; SAE, 1938 (Talcott prize); WFNY, 1939; Venice Biennial, 1940; H.V. Allison Gal., NYC, 1942 (solo); Am. for Victory traveling exh., 1943; LOC, 1944 (1st purchase prize); Am.-Swedish Inst., 1959 (memorial); Kramer Gal., St.Paul, MN, c.1992, (retrospective); AIC

Member: NYWCC; SC, 1906; ANA, 1943; AWCS; SAE.

Work: AIC; LOC; Newark Pub. Lib. (NJ); BMFA; Rochester MFA

Comments: Painter-etcher of the American scene, in the tradition of John Sloan and Reginald Marsh.

Sources: WW47; catalogue raisonnÈ of 225 prints, Kramer Gal. (St.Paul, MN, c.1992); Falk, Exh. Record Series.