Bernard E. Peters (1893-1949) was an American artist and co founder of the

Ste. Genevieve Art Colony The Ste. Genevieve Art Colony was an art collective in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. It was founded in 1932 by Aimee Schweig, Bernard E. Peters, and Jessie Beard Rickly. The Ste. Genevieve Summer School of Art was established in 1934. The colony ...

Biography

Peters was born on August 8, 1893, in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at the

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and Harvard

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. He taught art at Cleveland High School in St. Louis. He was married to Ord Peters. At the suggestion of his friend

Frank Nuderscher Frank Bernard Nuderscher (July 19, 1880 – October 7, 1959) was an American Illustration, illustrator, muralist, and Painting, painter of the American Impressionism style. He was called the "dean of St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis artists" ...

, visited rural

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, in 1932. He and

Jessie Beard Rickly Jessie Beard Rickly (1895-1975) was an American artist and co founder of the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony. Biography Rickly née Beard was born on October 5, 1895, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. She attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts where her ...

, along with their families rented a house at 202 Merchant Street, sharing studio space which became the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony. The third co founder of the colony was

Aimee Schweig Aimee Gladstone Schweig (1892–1987) was an American artist known as one of the founders of the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony. Her paintings depict primarily local subjects from the Ste. Genevieve and other Missouri areas. Biography Schweig was b ...

. The following year the Peters settled in nearby

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. Peters was a member of the St. Louis Artists' Guild, the St. Louis Industrial Art Club, and the Two-by-Four Society. Peters died of Bright's disease on May 21, 1949, in Saint Louis, Missouri at the age of 53. His work is in the collection of Midwestern art at the

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