Joseph Peller (born 1953) is an artist; he is also a teacher at the

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Education

Initially Peller studied with Canadian artist A.K. Scott, a pupil of the American painters Charles W. Hawthorne and

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. While studying at the School of Architecture at the

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, he worked with artists

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and

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. In New York City, Peller studied with Ronald Sherr at the

National Academy of Design The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fin ...

and Thomas Fogarty Jr., Roberto De Lamonicam and Hilary Holmes at the Art Students League, where in 1985 he received a Revson Foundation Grant.

Career

Peller has also taught at the New York Academy of Art.The Art Students League of New York Catalog of the 130th regular session.http://www.theartstudentsleague.org/Classes/Instructors/tabid/104/ItemId/27/vw/1/Default.aspx

References

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