Peter Rudolph

Closed Garden

2023

Signed lower middle: Rudolph '23 Peter was born in New York in 1946. He received a BFA from the Tyler School of Art and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Peter taught at the Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia. Peter, when he is not painting, works as an art dealer in Philadelphia through the McClees Galleries. He specializes in European and early American Art, and his vast knowledge of art is evident in his work. Peter Rudolph...

04–14, 2016 Oil on canvas, 36 x 42 inches (91.4 x 106.7 cm) Signed and dated on verso: Madeline Peckenpaugh / 2016 Provenance The artist; Private collection, Haverford Madeline Pec...

Frelinghuysen Morris Foundation; Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Private collection until 2022 Suzy Frelinghuysen was born into a wealthy and prominent New Jersey family, and growing up, she was tutored in both art and music. While she showed an early talent for art, it was not her primary interest; as a child, she nurtured an nambition to become a professional singer. In 1935, she married George Morris, who came from an equally wealthy and distinguished New York family and had already established himself as an art collector, artist, and critic. Morris encouraged Frelinghuysen to paint and introduced her to a circle of affluent abstract artists, including the artist and collector Albert Gallatin. Gallatin owned a small but influential gallery, known as the Gallery of Living Art...

Provenance Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York; Collection of Jeptha H. Wade and Emily Vanderbilt Wade, Boston, until 2025 Exhibitions Cleveland Museum of Art, Art for Collectors, 1971...