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Peto, John Frederick
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Ordinary_Objects_in_the_Artist's_Creative_Mind
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1887
Oil_on_canvas
Shelburne_Museum,_Shelburne,_VT.
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| Peto,_John_Frederick
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Ordinary Objects in the Artist's Creative Mind
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| 1887
Oil on canvas
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American, 1854-1907
American painter. He trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1877-8), Philadelphia, where he became a friend of William Michael Harnett whose work was a dominant influence on his oeuvre. Peto maintained a studio in Philadelphia, exhibiting at the Academy from 1879 to 1887; he earned a living through occasional work as a photographer, sculptor and painter. After moving to Island Heights, NJ, in 1889,
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