Incollect Magazine - Issue 8

Incollect Magazine 71 “I am a fan,” says gallerist Jim Alterman, talking about Peter Sculthorpe, the legendary painter of atmospheric rural scenes and one of America’s most popular landscape painters. J im Alterman has known the artist for almost 20 years and in that time has had the pleasure of owning hundreds of his artworks through his eponymous gallery, Jim’s of Lambertville. The gallery is currently showing a retrospective exhibition of more than 130 of the artist’s paintings and prints, “Peter Sculthorpe, Modern Day Master: The Retrospective,” accompanied by an illustrated catalog. Sculthorpe, 75, has spent the last 50 years painting his vision of the American landscape. Born in Ontario, Canada, he studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia but, he says, knew “right away” a career as an academic painter was “not for me.” He left Philadelphia and established a home in Chester County, Pa., and began to immerse himself in the historic stone barns, streams, and countryside of the Brandywine Valley, where he still resides. His subject matter later expanded to include Maine and coastal Canada. Peter Sculthorpe in his Delaware studio.