Roland Petersen

Painting, Visual Artist

1926 –

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Who is Roland Petersen?

Roland Petersen is an American painter and printmaker of Danish birth.

Petersen was born in Endelave, Denmark in 1926. He studied at University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute, California College of Arts and Crafts, Atelier 17, Islington Studio, London, the Print Workshop, London, and the Hans Hofmann School. He taught painting at Washington State University, printmaking at UC Berkeley, and painting and printmaking at UC Davis. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship.

In March 2010 Petersen's work was the subject of a major retrospective held at the Monterey Museum of Art in Monterey, California. Petersen, his daughter, and his wife, the photographer Caryl Ritter, were present.

Petersen has a very distinctive and recognizable style of printmaking. He works in color intaglio, which is a category of printmaking techniques including etching, drypoint and engraving. Intaglio means that the image is incised into the plate. Petersen uses this technique to achieve a variety of textures within each image, as well as multiple colors.

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Born
Mar 31, 1926
Endelave
Also known as
  • Roland C. Petersen
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Bachelor's degree, University of California, Berkeley
    Art
    ( - 1950)
Lived in
  • San Francisco

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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