Andrew Peters   b.1954

Andrew Peters paintings will again hang in the 2008 Prix de West Invitational Exhibition at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. It is the premier museum show in the nation. His work is also included at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles at the Masters of the American West. He has exhibited at the Joslyn Art Museum, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Cincinnati Museum Center, and the Colorado History Museum. In 2006 he was Artist in Residence at the Great Plains Art Museum completed A Good Solid Century Farm for their permanent collection.

Andrew Peters’ paintings are the result of a life spent in nature. Growing up in Council Bluffs, Iowa, he was usually hunting and fishing with his father in the Missouri River Valley. At nearby Fontenelle Forest he was mentored in ecology by naturalist James Malkowski. He drew birds from life and Audubon prints, and studied academic painting in the studio of Fran Day. He earned a bachelor of Sciences degree from Iowa State University with a minor in art, and won the Iowa Duck Stamp competition at the age of 22 which launched his fine art career.

Painting in plein air Mt Assiniboine, B.C. Canada.

The Joslyn Art Museum provided Andrew with his earliest art lessons and the complete collection of original watercolors by Karl Bodmer which kindled his passion for travel and painting onsite. He roamed Africa for a year painting game animals and indigenous peoples. He has painted throughout North and South America and in Romania, Morocco, Spain, Italy, France, and Ireland. His plein air paintings faithfully capture light and beauty from life and are a key strength of his richly imbued larger works. “A painting should read like a window onto a place,” he says, “luminous and fresh. He believes that light- not line- determines form.

During each summer Andrew roams the intermountain west painting in the Nomad, his travel trailer modified into a studio. It puts him near his subjects for as long as needed to create works both elaborate and true. He builds crates, ships to galleries and museums and continues onward in search of new landscapes. “It is sustainable travel, mostly in wilderness and without constraints”. He has traveled 16,000 miles in a few months in this way and believes it to be the best way to create the highest quality paintings of the American landscape.

Andrew’s work is sold by Trailside Galleries in Jackson, WY and Scottsdale, AZ and Claggett/Rey Gallery in Vail, CO. He resides in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

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