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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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17 Book References for Peter Camfferman
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Martin, David (Essay) An Enduring Legacy: Women Painters of Washington 1930-2005
(Exhibition catalog)
127 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1992 Trip, Dode; Sherburne Cook Jr. Washington State Artists 1850-1950 185 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Cumming, William Sketchbook, A Memoir of the 30's and the Northwest School 239 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)
600 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1937 Breckinridge, Mrs. H. (essay) Second National Exhibition of American Art Summer 1937
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
1936 Breckinridge, Mrs. (essay) First National Exhibition of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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