01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Jane Peterson's In a Café, with footnotes, Part #78

Jane Peterson (American, 1876-1965)

In a Café, circa 1909

Oil on canvas

50 x 30 inches (127.0 x 76.2 cm)

Private collection

This character study of a sophisticated, elegantly-dressed woman nestled in the corner of a Parisian café near a samovar is one of the most ambitious early figurative paintings by the American painter). Although best known today for her sunny floral and garden views as well as her colorful scenes of Gloucester, Peterson devoted considerable energy and focus during her formative European years to painting genre scene-cum-portraits of single women in a bustling urban world. Without stretching the idea too far, it is quite accurate to note that her artistic focus was trained sharply for time on images featuring the type of woman she herself aspired to become-independent and in charge of her own life and world in an environment of culture. More on this painting

Jane Peterson (1876–1965) was a graduate of Pratt Institute and an American Impressionist and Expressionist painter. Her works are created in Impressionist and Expressionist styles using broad swaths of vibrant colors to combine an interest in light and in depiction of spontaneous moments and are well known for vivid, rich painted still life, beach scenes along the Massachusetts coast. Her works are housed in museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C, and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Philadelphia Museum of Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. More on Jane Peterson

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