"Flowers" / White hostas and petunias is a masterful still life floral painting by renown artist Jane Peterson, oil on canvas. It is signed in the lower right.Provenance: Purchased at Skinner's in '85. It was exhibited at Ipswich Art Association in 1926 and won 1st prize. Peterson is known for developing an individualistic style of bold color combinations. Her canvases that intermingle Fauvist and Impressionist tendencies with academic drawing rank among her finest canvases and works on paper. As a woman, her life was much more independent and adventurous than those of most of her contemporaries. Traveling and painting with Joaquin Sorolla, Louis Comfort Tiffany, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam and Maurice Prendergast, Peterson had an art entourage that was influential, powerful and impressive. She could paint with the best of the male painters and that impressed the art world.Overall size: 38 3/4 x 38 3/4Sight size: 31 1/2 x 31 in.Please note that all sales are final. No refunds will be given under any circumstances.