Peter Camfferman

Peter 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.