Fay Peck
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![]() Artists Claes Oldenburg, and Fay Peck, with museum director Jan van der Marck (August 1968) | |
Born | Fay Gunderson August 7, 1931. Chicago, Illinois, US |
Died | September 18, 2016 Bozeman, Montana, US | (aged 85)
Resting place | Lake Forest Cemetery, Lake Forest, Lake County, Illinois, US |
Movement | Expressionism |
Spouse(s) | David Bell Peck III |
Fay Gunderson Peck (1931 – 2016)[1] was an American Expressionist artist, known for her painting and printmaking.[2][3]
Biography[]
Fay Gunderson was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 7, 1931, to parents Alice Gunderson and Gunnar E. Gunderson.[1][4] She was of Norwegian descent.[1] She grew up in rural River Forest, Illinois.[5] In 1954, she married David Bell Peck III on her family farm in Lemont.[4]
She attended University of Miami, and studied in the summers at University of Wisconsin and the University of Oslo.[5] She participated in art workshops and studied at Anderson Ranch Arts Center and Evanston Art Center, where she studied with artist Paul Wieghardt.[5]
Her work is in many collections including Rice University;[6] First National Bank of Chicago; the New York Stock Exchange; Goldman Sachs; and various United States embassies.[5][7][8]
Publications[]
- Peck, Fay (2014). Steele, Robin (ed.). Fay Peck: American Expressionist. History Works, Incorporated. ISBN 9780979776953.
References[]
- ^ a b c "Fay Gunderson Peck Biography". Askart.com. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Ross, Harold Wallace; White, Katharine Sergeant Angell (1973). The New Yorker (magazine). Vol. Volume 49, Part 6. F-R Publishing Corporation. p. 7 – via Google Books.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Peck–Gunderson". Newspapers.com. Chicago Tribune. 4 November 1954. p. 39. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c d Watson, Ella (January 2018). ""Fay Peck: American Expressionist" at the Helen. E Copeland Gallery (HECG)". Montana State University (in American English). Retrieved 2021-01-31.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "'Nature embraces you' at Lake Forest midcentury for sale". Crain's Chicago Business. 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ^ "Artists: Fay Peck". U.S. Department of State (in American English). Retrieved 2021-01-31.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Fay Peck". Artnet.com. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
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- 1931 births
- 2016 deaths
- American women artists
- University of Miami alumni
- American Expressionist painters
- People from River Forest, Illinois
- People from Bozeman, Montana
- Artists from Chicago
- American people of Norwegian descent
- 21st-century American women
- Artist stubs