Lisa N. Peters

Background

Lisa Peters was born on May 3, 1957, in Portland, Oregon, the United States, to Melvin A. (an industrial auctioneer) and Sandra (a poet; maiden name, Stone) Peters.

Education

Peters studied at Colorado College and received a bachelor's degree in 1979. She then attended New York University and became a Master of Arts in 1983. Peters completed her Ph.D. studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1995.

Career

Peters was a research and publications director at Spanierman Gallery, New York (1985-2012). She has lectured at museums, art councils and academic conferences across the country, written and edited numerous exhibition catalogs, published many articles in scholarly journals and curated several exhibitions.

Her publications include The Portrait Collection of New-York–Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center (2015); “All the Paintable Things in Europe”: Edgar Payne’s European Art and Travels (1922–24, 1928) (Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2012); “‘An Atmosphere of Youthful Enthusiasm under a Hospitable Sky”: The American Artists’ Colony in Polling, Bavaria, 1872-1881 (American Art Journal, 2000); John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionist (High Museum of Art, 1999); and Visions of Home: American Impressionist Images of Suburban Leisure and Country Comfort (Dickinson College, 1997). She is the author of the forthcoming catalog raisonné of the work of John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902), to be published by the Greenwich Historical Society (Connecticut).

Achievements

• Peters is an outstanding researcher. Her extensive work was highly praised by her colleagues.

Works

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  • John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionist

    (John Twachtman (1853-1902) was one of the most modern Ame...)

    1999
  • John Twachtman (1853-1902) a "Painter's Painter"

    (Art historians consider Twachtman's style of American Imp...)

    2006
  • Visions of Home: American Impressionist Images of Suburban Leisure and Country Comfort

    (American Impressionism paintings between 1890 and 1925 ex...)

    1997
  • Journeys: The Art of Betty Parsons 2010
  • Over Seven Decades: the Art of Gershon Benjamin 2008
  • Robert Emmett Owen (1878-1957): The Spirit of New England 1998
  • A personal gathering: Paintings and sculpture from the collection of William I. Koch 1996

Connections

Peters is married to Jerome C. Wakefield since April 9, 1993. They have two sons, Joshua R., and Zachary P. Wakefield.

Father:

Melvin A. Peters

Mother:

Sandra Peters

Spouse:

Jerome C. Wakefield

Son:

Zachary P. Wakefield

Son:

Joshua R. Wakefield

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 189
  2001