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Biography
Charles L. Peterson
After graduating from the America Academy of Art in Chicago, he completed an undergraduate BA, Cum Laude with Phi Beta Kappa at Marietta College, an MFA on scholarship at Ohio University and post-masters studies at the University of Wisconsin. He enjoyed a 20 year Professorship as Art Department Head at Ohio's Marietta College. Since 1973, he has painted full time, and, though he really doesn't believe in art as a competitive medium, he has won awards at the Swedish American Show in Chicago and from the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, the most recent being the Museum Purchase award at Mystic's 27th Annual International in 2006.
Having sailed all his life and having served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during World War II, he has continued to enjoy sailing up to the present time. Though his work ranges from portraiture to still life, he has particularly enjoyed the challenge of genre painting, especially maritime themes, in which field he has been listed among Mystic's Modern Marine Masters.
For 10 years, he was listed by U.S. Art Magazine among the top ten most popular print painters in the U.S. and his two books featuring those prints are Reflections and Of Time and Place which received the Printing Industries of American, Inc.'s "Best of Category" award in 1997. Last Month, the American Academy of Art hung a retrospective of his work ranging from drawings done in the Pacific during WWII up to the present, including a reproduction of one of his prize winners from Mystic, "Sabbath at Sea."
$2,500.00
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