Peter
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Peter was born in 1934 to a family of successful artists.
In his teens, he studied painting at the Corcoran Art School
in Washington, D.C., and after a tour of duty in the Marine
Corps, enrolled at the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore,
where his principal instructor was Jacques Maroger. Upon
graduating, he attended the Arts Students League in New
York and later George Washington University in Washington,
D.C. From 1960 to 1967 he taught drawing and painting at
St. Mary's College of Maryland. He is a Charter member,
former President and Fellow of the American
Society of Marine Artists.
Peter has devoted more than fifty years to his career as
a portrait and marine artist. He and his wife keep a studio
on their waterfront farm in Drayden, Maryland and another
in East Boothbay, Maine.
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