From the Artist
Peacock is a self-portrait embodying all the symbols I sometimes use in my work.
The name "Paone" in Italian means "peacock"
— Brandywine Workshop and Archives records
One of the things I realized early on in my career was that my powers are really in my imagination. I don’t work from nature. I don’t work from a subject. I don’t set up still lifes and I don’t have models. I don’t go out in the garden to paint. I work from memory. I work from what I remember from what I’ve seen.
—Excerpted from https://woodmereartmuseum.org/explore-online/collection/artist/peter-paone, accessed 7-22-2021
Peter Paone was born in Philadelphia and educated at the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts). He has taught at Pratt Institute and the National Academy of Design, New York City, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Phila...
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