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Peter Camfferman
Peter Camfferman
Peter Camfferman

Peter Camfferman

born The Hague, Netherlands, 1890; died Langley, Washington, 1957
BiographyPeter Camfferman was a landscape painter, etcher, and art educator. He trained at the Minneapolis School of Fine Art and with the French cubist painter and sculptor André Lhote (1885–1962) at the Lhote Atelier in Paris. Camfferman and his artist wife, Margaret (1881-1964), arrived in the Northwest in 1915, settling at Langley, Whidbey Island where they established an art colony at their home Brachenwood. The colony flourished from the 1920s through Camfferman’s death in 1957.

The Camffermans were some of the earliest modernists in the Northwest, avant-garde even among other forward-looking painters such as their colleagues in Seattle’s progressive Group of Twelve, a loose association of Seattle artists interested in modern art.
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  • Langley
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Margaret Camfferman
born Rochester, Minnesota, 1881; died Everett, Washington, 1964
Viola Patterson
born Seattle, Washington, 1898; died Seattle, Washington, 1984
Louise Crow
born Seattle, Washington, 1891; died San Mateo, California, 1968
Walt Kuhn
born Brooklyn, New York, 1877; died White Plains, New York, 1949
Lenore Tawney
born Lorain, Ohio, 1907; died New York City, New York, 2007
Walter F. Isaacs
born Gillespie, Illinois, 1886; died Seattle, Washington, 1964
Elmer Bischoff
born Berkeley, California, 1916; died Berkeley, California, 1991
Dixie Stanton
born Eyota, Minnesota; died Mercer Island, Washington, 2022
Peter Rindisbacher
born Canton of Bern, Switzerland, 1806; died St. Louis, Missouri, 1834
Ernest Lawson
born Halifax, Canada, 1873; died Miami Beach, Florida, 1939