Margaret Peterson
American painter and illustrator
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Margaret Peterson was an American painter of abstract art and known for creating a style that was highly influenced by the art of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Biography Peterson was born in Seattle, Washington. In the 1920s she studied at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1926 with a Bachelor in Arts and soon joined its faculty of Fine Arts in 1928. The years between 1928 and 1950 were productive years for Peterson; this included a funded trip to Europe , several exhibitions, marriage to her husband, the Canadian writer Howard O'Hagan , and a year spent at Green Point, Cowichan Bay, British Columbia to study Indigenous Art in Victoria’s former anthropological museum . In 1950, at the height of McCarthyism, she rejected an oath of loyalty imposed by the University of California, Berkeley’s board of regents and left her faculty position for New York, where she would have a solo exhibition at the former Algonquin Hotel.
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