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Peter Hunt

Peter Hunt (1896 - 1967) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  Peter Hunt is known for Folk art furniture-peasant art decoration, silkscreen, drawing.

A folk artist and story teller with wide-ranging imagination, Peter Hunt, working from the 1930s through the 1960s, made his reputation with peasant decorations on furniture. "A friend of the wealthy, the artistic and the odd-ball, Peter Hunt and his Peasant Village was a well-known fixture on Cape Cod."  Customers included Helena Rubenstein and Frederick Waugh.

A longstanding Cape Cod legend (that Hunt originated and promoted) held that he first arrived in Provincetown in the early 1920s when the yacht Hunt shared with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald was forced to take safe harbor in the face of a storm.  Wearing a sweeping black cape and a black broad-rimmed hat, holding the leashes of his playful afghan hounds while a red-headed dwarf scurried behind, Hunt said he strolled the streets of the village and declared, "This is a wonderful place. I must stay here."

No matter how dramatic (or ordinary) his arrival, Hunt did stay in Provincetown, bringing his parents, Ma   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4126 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Peter Hunt available:    Wendell Rogers,  Fritz Wilhelm Pfeiffer,  Daisy Marguerite Hughes,  Dorothy Lake Gregory,  Joseph Kaplan,  Bruce McKain,  Martha Cahoon,  Caleb Arnold Slade,  George William Whitaker,  Leo Manso,  William Horace (Bill) Littlefield,  Lillian Burk Meeser,  Charles Cahoon,  Henry Hensche,  William Robert Davis,  Ross Moffett,  Marty Collins,  Jacob Greenleaf,  Lemuel Eldred,  John Cuthbert Hare,  Clement Drew,  Frank Adamo,  Harold Dunbar,  Gerrit Beneker