JANE PETERSON 1876 - 1965

Size:  16 x 20
Medium:  oil on artist board
Signed:  Lower left
 
Born in Elgin, Illinois on November 28, 1876, Jennie Christine (as she was named) began drawing at a young age and took art lessons through the public school system in her hometown. At the age of nineteen, she arrived in New York to study at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute under Arthur Wesley Dow, and eventually became an instructor of painting at the school. After she graduated from Pratt in 1901, she was appointed the Drawing Supervisor of Brooklyn Public Schools and she began studies with Frank Vincent DuMond at the Art Students League of New York.