Robert Peters is a landscape and still life painter with a career spanning over 40 years. He has exhibited his works in museum exhibitions such as the Prix de West, Quest for the West, Masters of the American West and The West Select. Peters’ paintings have earned great acclaim, and several museums have included his paintings as part of their permanent collections. His work has steadily earned him acceptance and recognition as one of America’s notable landscape painters.
At the start of his career, Peters worked for 12 years as a freelance illustrator represented in New York City. As a member of the Society of Illustrators, his award-winning paintings were featured on the covers of magazines such as U.S. News & World Report. Peters created paintings for the national advertising campaigns of corporations such as AT&T, 7UP, MasterCard, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Audi, Canon, Motorola, Revlon, TV Guide and others. Peters’ illustration experience gave him a solid foundation for his current work.
Born in upstate New York and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Peters credits his early memories of the Southwestern deserts with sparking a passion for the outdoors. His extensive travels throughout the American West instilled a love for nature. Peters’ life in the West included some time in Colorado and the central coast of California, where he and his wife, Nanette, raised and showed paint horses. The couple and their two children have since moved to Arizona, near Prescott, where they reside today.
Publications featuring Peters’ paintings have included Art of the West, Cowboys & Indians, Fine Art Connoisseur, Persimmon Hill, Southwest Art, Western Art Collector, Western Horseman and Wildlife Art.
