Pastel on paper, monogrammed at upper right, 1989, float mounted and framed under Plexiglass.

Sheet size 21 1/2 x 28 7/8; Frame dimensions 32 1/2 x 42 in.

From the Collection of Jim and Lynn Schilling, Wesley Chapel, North Carolina

Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina

Robert Peterson was born in Elmhurst, Illinois and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He lost much of hearing following a rheumatic fever as a child. Drawing became an important creative outlet for Peterson.

Peterson studied at the New Mexico School for the Deaf in Santa Fe and then Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C. He returned to Albuquerque in the late 1960s and became a full time artist. He is known as a master pastel artist, whose primary focus evolved to serene still lifes in the realist tradition presented for mindful contemplation.

Slight curl to sheet; not examined out of the frame. Overall in good estate condition.