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THBRoger Tory Peterson (1908-1996), Goldfinches
Lot 328
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Copley Fine Art Auctions is the world's leading American sporting art auction company. Located in Hingham, MA, Copley specializes in antique decoys and 19th- and 20th-century American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Principal Stephen O'Brien Jr., a fourth-generation sportsman with a refined colle...Read more
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Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996)
Goldfinches, 1959
watercolor and gouache, 13 by 10 in.
stamped "Roger Tory Peterson" on back
The work was created for the 1959 Morrell Calendar, which featured "Birds of our Land." John Morrell Co., a long-running meatpacking company, produced and sold advertising calendars with different themes each year.
Roger Tory Peterson was born in 1908 in Jamestown, New York. After a childhood spent reading and being fascinated with birds, he studied art at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York. Inspired by naturalist bird artists, such as John James Audubon, Edward Lear, and Louis Agassiz Fuertes, in 1934 Peterson published his innovative and influential "A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America," which went into multiple editions and is still in print. The Peterson Field Guides imprint remains a popular resource.
Peterson said, "In 1934 there was nothing remotely like the Field Guide in print...My special contribution was the visual element within a carefully chosen context. Other ornithologists, both noted and nameless, had worked out the field marks of most birds. I combined their knowledge with my visual presentation and, at the urging of two friends in particular, carried the idea through. Their encouragement, my native interest in birds, and my professional training as an artist enabled me to create something that appeared new, though it was really a kind of fertile hybrid."
Among his many honors, the artist-naturalist received multiple honorary degrees and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Today, the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History continues to educate the public on art and nature in his honor in his hometown of Jamestown.
Provenance: The artist
Virginia Peterson Estate
Private Collection, by descentPlease email condition report requests to leah@copleyart.com. Any condition statement given is a courtesy to customers, Copley will not be held responsible for any errors or omissions. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition.Condition
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