Robert Peterson: Somewhere in America: Organized by the Wichita Art Museum
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Robert PetersonRaise Them Up To Be Kings, 2022Oil on canvas31 1/2 x 25 5/16 inches
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Robert PetersonCrowns and Halos, 2024Oil and gold leaf on canvas65 1/3 x 49 1/8 inches
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Robert PetersonAssieds-toi (take a seat), 2024Oil on canvas72 x 54 inches
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Robert PetersonAmerican Dreamin', 2024Oil on canvas72 x 48 inches
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Robert PetersonHeart of Gold, 2024Oil and gold leaf on canvas60 x 36 inches
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Robert PetersonSomewhere Between Heaven and Earth, 2020Oil on canvas74 x 50 inches
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Robert PetersonDon't Let Me Be Misunderstood, 2024Oil on canvas46 x 36 inches
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Robert PetersonPure Joy, 2024Oil on canvas25 x 21 inches
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Robert PetersonHead in the Clouds, 2022Oil on canvas48 x 72 inches
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Robert PetersonDaughter of an Immigrant, 2021Oil and diamond dust on canvas60 x 48 inches
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Robert PetersonUntitled (Blue Blow Pop), 2019Oil on panel24 inches
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Robert PetersonUntitled (Hair Curlers), 2019Oil on panel30 inches
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Robert PetersonUntitled (Brick Phone), 2019Oil on panel24 inches
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Robert PetersonProtector. Protect Her. (Nothing like a Mother’s love), 2022Oil on canvas40 x 80 inches
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Robert PetersonNot my first rodeo, 2024Oil on canvas73 3/4 x 85 3/4 inches
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Robert PetersonLonging to be seen, 2024Oil on panel30 x 24 inches
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Robert PetersonBirds of a feather, 2024Oil on canvas25 x 21 inches
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Robert PetersonWhen you see him, you see me, 2022Oil on canvas24 x 18 inches
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Robert PetersonVirginia, 2024Oil on canvas20 x 16 inches
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Robert PetersonStill Standing, 2024Oil on canvas64 x 48 inches
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Robert PetersonSaint Daniel, 2023Oil on canvas25 x 21 inches
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Robert PetersonSaint Gregory, 2023Oil on canvas25 x 21 inches
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Robert PetersonSmall Town Girl, 2024Oil on canvas49 1/2 x 37 1/2 inches
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Robert PetersonSlaying Giants. Protest 2020., 2020Oil on canvas50 x 74 inches
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Robert PetersonSaint Francis, 2023Oil on canvas25 x 21 inches
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Robert PetersonOklahoma Son, 2024Oil and gold leaf on canvas21 12 x 21 1/2 inches
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Robert PetersonImperfectly perfect, together, 2023Oil on canvas81 1/2 x 115 1/2 inches
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Robert PetersonI Am Forever, 2024Oil on canvas54 x 114 inches
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Robert PetersonEveryone Deserves Flowers, 2024Oil on canvas25 x 21 inches
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Robert PetersonBack to Black, 2024Oil on panel30 x 24 inches
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Robert PetersonSunday Kind of Love, 2022Oil on canvas54 x 114 inches
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Robert PetersonGifted, 2024Oil and gold leaf on canvas21 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches
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Robert PetersonAlocasia, 2021Oil on canvas41 x 41 inches
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Robert PetersonShe is Like Water, 2022Oil on canvas36 x 36 inches
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Robert PetersonSaint Alexander, 2023Oil on canvas25 x 21 inches
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Robert PetersonThree Brothers, 2022Oil on canvas40 x 60 inches
Somewhere in America tells a deeply personal- yet widely recognizable-story of family, community, and legacy.
In his portraits, contemporary artist Robert Peterson renders African American life beautifully and joyfully, rejecting stereotypes to celebrate the “Black experience as [he] knows it.” The artist’s first major museum exhibition, Somewhere in America features key paintings from Peterson’s existing works, as well as over 20 new works, many painted on a monumental scale. Each painting—loving depictions of individuals, couples, and families in everyday moments—commemorates Peterson’s community in small-town Oklahoma, his wider circle of friends and family throughout the country, and the people he encounters that spark memories of those he has known, both past and present. Self-taught, Peterson picked up a paintbrush for the first time in 2012 to distract himself from an upcoming hip replacement. He had his first solo exhibition in New York City less than a year later. Today, his work sells out at art fairs and galleries and is collected by museums, with works at the Philbrook Museum of Art, Weisman Art Museum, and Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg.
Robert Peterson Somewhere in America is organized by the Wichita Art Museum.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.