Vintage American School Early American Modernist New York Park Scene Oil Painting Signed

American School Early American Modernist Park Scene Oil Painting Signed, Martin Petersen, 12 x 16", 15 x 19" framed.
Martin Petersen was born in Denmark 1866 and settled in Jersey City in 1884. He studied at the National Academy of Design. For fifty years he supported himself as an anatomical artist for the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He produced a large body of etched work in the tradition of John Sloan and Reginal Marsh. He also received innumerable awards during his career and his work today is found in many museum collections. He painted landscapes and figure subjects. In 1905, he won the third Hallgarten prize an exhibition of the National Academy of Design. The paintings attracted the attention of H.V. Allison, head of the Allison Gallery in New York; the breadth and vigor of his paintings, drawings and etchings attracted favorable comment by critics who found them quite in contrast to his exact and unemotional medical drawings. One of the watercolors was bought by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and other works went into private collections. He was honored by the Academy of Design to associate membership in 1943 at 72.The following additional information was submitted by the artist's grand-daughter, Noelle Kuhl, January 2006:He lost his right arm in Copenhagen, Denmark when he was a young boy working in a sugar mill. This was part of what made his art work so special. He made all his own frames and ran his own printing press making his etching plates.

15 x 19 x 1 in