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Orville Houghton Peets
American painter, printmaker, 1884–1968
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BiographyOrville Houghton Peets, son of Edward Orville and Mary Houghton Peets, was born in Cleveland, Ohio on August 13, 1884.Biography orville peets
While still in high school he began producing political cartoons for the Cleveland Leader. A cartoon dealing with the Boer War was reprinted in the London Daily Mail. An uncle living in London saw the cartoon and subsequently offered to pay for his training abroad as an artist.
In 1903 Peets departed for Paris where he studied at the Académie Julien and the École des Beaux-Arts under artists William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Leon Bonnat and Marcel Andre Baschet.
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After three years living abroad, Peets returned to the United States. He began taking short visits to Paris in early 1910 and late 1912, eventually settling in Paris to paint and teach etching. Among his students were four former pupils of Howard Pyle as well as a member of one of Wilmington’s earliest families, Ethel Poynt