Roland Petersen

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Roland Petersen is an American painter and printmaker known for his vibrant, semi-abstract figurative works that blend modernist influences with scenes of everyday life.

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instanceOf artist
painter
person
printmaker
artisticCharacteristic geometric structuring of space
strong color contrasts
associatedWith California art scene
UC Davis art faculty
basedIn California
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
countryOfOrigin Denmark
educatedAt California College of Arts and Crafts
Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts
University of California, Berkeley
employer University of California, Davis
fieldOfWork painting
printmaking
genre figurative art
semi-abstract art
hasWorkInCollection Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Oakland Museum of California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
immigratedTo United States of America
influencedBy modernist art
movement Bay Area Figurative Movement
modernism
nationality American
notableFor printmaking
teaching in the UC Davis art department
vibrant semi-abstract figurative paintings
notableWork Picnic series
occupation art professor
painter
printmaker
placeOfBirth Endelave, Denmark
style colorful compositions
semi-abstract representation of figures
subjectMatter domestic scenes
figures in outdoor settings
usesMedium oil paint
printmaking techniques
workFocus scenes of everyday life

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