ARTIST Peter Holbrook

Peter Holbrook (1940-2016) was known as one of foremost landscape painters of the Southwest and the West Coast. In his 60 year career as an artist, he had gallery affiliations from New York to California including over 60 solo exhibitions. He won many prizes and fellowships and executed major commissions for the Clorox Corporation and the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Sacramento. He has been the subject of numerous catalogs, magazine and newspaper articles, and included in many art and painting anthologies, most recently, The Art of the National Parks by Stern and McGarry. Many major museums have collected and exhibited his work including The Oakland Museum of Art, The Springfield (MO) Museum of Art, The Boise Art Museum, The Tucson Art Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum, and the Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Art.

Holbrook believed that, “a good painting allows us to momentarily enter another’s consciousness and implies dimensions beyond what is normally seen. It makes painting a spiritual exercise, requiring imagination to create credibility. “