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Peter Camfferman

Peter Marienus Camfferman (1890 - 1957) was active/lived in Washington.  Peter Camfferman is known for Modernist landscape, etching, education.

A landscape painter, etcher and art educator, Peter Camfferman was born in The Hague, Holland and at age twelve, emigrated to America.  He studied with Andre Lhote at the Lhote Atelier in Paris and at the Minneapolis School of Fine Art where he met his future wife, Margaret Gove Camfferman.  The couple married in 1914, and the following year moved to Langley, Washington on Whidbey Island where they built a home they called Brackenwood.  They did all of the work by hand including the making of furniture out of driftwood they gathered.  The site included cabins for visiting artists and became known as the Brackenwood Art Colony.  They held art classes on their property, and Peter was a teacher at the Helen Bush Art School in Seattle.

The couple lived at Langley for the remainder of their lives, with the exception of a year in New York City, 1925-1926.  Both were members of Seattle's Group of Twelve and Peter was also a member of the P   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3779 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Peter Camfferman


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
  • Sketch, Sketching
Art MediaArt Style
  • Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Pacific Northwest Before 1900
Art Association
  • Group of Twelve, Seattle
  • Northwest Printmakers
  • Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters
  • Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
  • Andre Lhote
Art School
  • Minneapolis School of Fine Art, College Art & Design, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Artist Colony
  • Brackenwood-Washington
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York

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