Carl Peters (1897-1980) was born in Rochester, New York in 1897.  He was an Impressionist landscape painter who focused on New York’s Genesee Valley and Massachusett’s Cape Ann area (in particular Rockport, 1925-on).  He was a muralist during the WPA era painting buildings in the Rochester area.  In the 1940s, he joined an association of Rochester artists called the Genesee Group (or Rationalists) who believed that art should advance not by revolution but more slowly through evolution.

Studied

Rochester Inst. Tech., 1914; ASL, 1919; ASL Summer School, Woodstock, NY with Charles Rosen, Harry Leith-Ross, 1921; John F. Carlson in Woodstock, 1922

Member

AWCS; Buffalo SA; Springfield AA; AFA; Rockport AA; Woodstock AA; Rochester Art Club; Academic Artists; Genesee Group; NSAA

Exhibited

NAD, 1926-45 (Hallgarten Prizes); Univ. Rochester, 1924; Rochester AC (medals); Buffalo SA, 1927 (prize); PAFA Ann., 1927-28, 1933; Corcoran Gal biennials, 1930-35; AIC; AWCS; Milwaukee AI; North Shore AA; Rockport AA; Springfield Mus. Art; Rochester Mem. Art Gal.; Syracuse Mus. FA, 1930; Fort Worth Mus. Art

Work

NMAA and other public collections

Resources

WW73; WW47; Artists of the Rockport Art Association; Christian Title, Carl W. Peters; Falk, Exh. Record Series; add’l info. courtesy Spaniermann Gal, NYC; North Shore AA; Woodstock AA