Peter Sculthorpe
Born in 1948, Peter Sculthorpe's remarkable talent was evident even as a child and developed rapidly in high school where he was awarded an art scholarship in his senior year. He later studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
Arthur De Costa, Philadelphia painter and lecturer and then Chairman of the Painting Department of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts had this to say about Peter:
Peter Sculthorpe is well known for his superb technique. His ability to move watercolor, a most recalcitrant medium, in a fluent and elegant manner holds a fascination of its own. But when we look at his paintings, we are not conscious of them as being feats of technical prowess, which they are, but go immediately to the psychological moment each one presents. Although every painting seems to have for its subject something old-a wall, a barn, a house in good repair or tumbling down-these paintings are not about nostalgia. They don't carry us back to times gone by. We do not imagine ourselves looking in on a vanished world. Instead, they bring the past into the light of the present day, and this juxtaposition of past and present, which always takes us by surprise, is the starting premise of his art. It is an art that involves the viewer with an extraordinary sense of participation of being present and experiencing the. same poetic revelation that the artist felt when 'savoring these unfathomable moments.'
A partial listing of Peter's accomplishments follows:
Works In Public Collections
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford
Pennsylvania William Penn Memorial Art Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Forbes Collection, Forbes Building, New York, New York
Nabisco Headquarters Gallery, East Hanover, New Jersey
U. S. Fidelity & Guarantee, Baltimore, Maryland
Museum Exhibitions and furled Shows
Frye Museum, Seattle, Washington-Solo Exhibition
Watercolor U. S. A., Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
46th Annual Exhibition, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
122 Annual Exhibition, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia
56th Grand Exhibition, American Artists Professional League, New York
William Penn Memorial Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Solo Exhibition
National Academy of Design, New York, New York
American Watercolor Society, New York, New York
