biografía de DeWitt Clinton III PETERS (1902-1966)

Lugar de nacimiento: Monterey, CA

Lugar de defunción: Palisade, NY

Direcciones: Monterey, CA; Pomona, NY; Haiti

Profesión: Painter, teacher

Estudios: with his father, Charles Rollo Peters; ASL; Paris, with Leger and Sterner

Exposiciones: 1930s in Monterey

Obra: City of Monterey, CA

Comentarios: Named for a great uncle and a cousin, he was the son of Charles Rollo Peters (see entry) and brother of Charles Rollo Peters III (see entry). As a young man he worked as a writer in NYC for several years, however he gave up writing for painting. In 1944, after serving in WWII, he established a free art school in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, which launched the Haitian art movement. Among his students were Hector Hyppolite, Philome Obin, Rigaud Bemoit, and Tousaint Auguste.

Fuentes: PHF files