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John Frederick Peto 1854 - 1907
Description
- John Frederick Peto
Office Board for John Frederick Peto
- signed John F. Peto, l.c. and dated 1904, l.l.
- oil on board
- 10 ½ by 12 ¼ in.
- (26.7 by 31.1 cm)
Provenance
Oscar and Maria Salzer, Los Angeles, California, by 1964
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1982
Exhibited
Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art; Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum; San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, John F. Peto, March-July 1950, no. 46, illustrated on the cover
Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas, The Salzer Collection: Trompe-l'Oeil & Still Life Paintings, October-November 1964, no. 36, p. 22
Charlotte, North Carolina, The Mint Museum of Art, The Salzer Collection, Trompe-L'Oeil and Still Life Paintings, A Loan Exhibition, February-March 1965, no. 36
La Jolla, California, La Jolla Museum of Art; Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Reminiscent Object: Paintings by William Michael Harnett, John Frederick Peto and John Haberle, July-October 1965, no. 49, illustrated
Los Angeles, California, University of Southern California; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Museum of Art; Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Art; Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Reality and Deception, October 1974-April 1975, no. 53
Nagoya City, Japan, Nagoya City Art Museum; Tokyo, Japan, Bunkamura Museum of Art; Kobe, Japan, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Visual Deception, April-November 2009, no. 47
Literature
John Wilmerding, Important Information Inside: The Art of John F. Peto and the Idea of Still-Life Painting in Nineteenth-Century America, Washington, D.C., 1983, p. 167, illustrated p. 164
Portraits of Objects: Oscar and Maria Salzer Collection, Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, History and Science, 1984, no. 14, illustrated in color (as The Artist's Signboard)