Constance Peters - Casa De Lugo - Oil on Board P3380
Art is 4" x 5" and the wooden frame is 12" x 13". Really exquisite and rather powerful little painting.
Constance Mabel Evans Easley Peters, (1878/79-1939)
Painter. Born in 1878/79 in South Africa of French-English parents. After studying in Paris under Gustave Courtois, Fr., (1853-1923), Constance Evans established a studio in San Francisco. After her marriage to Easley, she became the second wife of Charles Rollo Peters in Monterey in 1909. The couple had homes in Europe and San Francisco for the rest of their lives. A world traveler, she derived her subject matter from both California and Europe including landscapes and seascapes of the Bay Area and the Monterey Peninsula in California, picturesque streets, old houses, fishing boats, and views of the French Riviera and English villages. She died in Monte Carlo on July 15, 1939.
She exhibited at California Artists, Golden Gate Park Memorial Museum, 1915 and 1916; Berkeley League of Fine Art, 1924; Colton Hall Museum, (Monterey) 1968.
Works in:
California Historical Society, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art; City of Monterey
Sources:
An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West, Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, University of Texas, Austin, 1998, and Artists in California, 1786-1940, Edan Milton Hughes, Third Ed., Crocker Museum, 2002.
