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Friday, October 1, 2021

1960-ish, Part 2 - the Art of Peter Samuelson


Peter Samuelson (1912-1996) apparently never intended to be a professional artist, having come from a financially comfortable family which owned some holiday properties in the Devon town of Torquay.  He attended Eton followed by a stint at art school in Paris.  He had a brief marriage to a Dutch woman before returning to Torquay where he helped his mother run a genteel boarding house where a lot of young men liked to stay.  He started painting (and eventually drawing) the guests as well as a number of local tradesmen, but he never showed or sold his work until friends staged some gallery shows in the 1980s.  Today we will be interested in his drawings as he apparently didn't paint nudes.

 

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  1. Love these drawings, Jerry! Thanks again for another terrific series.

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    1. My pleasure, B.D.! This one was fun to research, and I hadn't known about Samuelson's work before.

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  2. I'm also enjoying this series. Such simple yet expressive lines. I wonder how he approached his models? They're delightful.

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    1. Some of the sketches I saw while researching this series showed clothed young men in the lounge of the boarding house. I suppose some of them were asked it they would pose nude. They probably got used to Peter sketching in the lounge.

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    2. Good point...seeing that he was clearly a talented artist.

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