Henry Jarvis Peck
American illustrator and artist, 1880–1964
In 1908, Peck and Ashley took a studio in Bristol, Rhode Island, for a year, where both collected material for their marine illustrations. Peck continued to visit Rhode Island each summer. Returning to Wilmington in the early teens with his wife, Peck worked in Claymont at an artist's colony there, joining his fellow former Pyle students Roscoe Shrader, Herbert Moore, Percy Ivory, and Gayle Hoskins.
Peck was in France in 1918. Once he returned and set up his studio in Rhode Island, he also established a New York studio. He illustrated for many general interest magazines, with a specialty in marine subjects but a style adaptable to a wide range of content.
Peck was a member of the Providence Art Club, the Providence Water Color Club, the South County Art Association and the North Shore Art Association. He also belonged to Wilmington's theatrical Greenroom Club and of the Wilmington Orchestra, for which was a violinist.
Peck died in Kingston, Massachusetts in 1964.
Sources:
https://www.illustratedgallery.com/artwork/for-sale/artist/henry-peck/
A Small School of Art. Rowland Elzea and Elizabeth Hawkes, eds. Delaware Art Museum. 1980
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American painter, illustrator, and etcher, 1883–1968
American painter, 1881–1947
American illustrator, painter, printmaker, and author, born 1940
English artist, 1885–1954, active in America
American painter, 1828–1901
American painter and draftsman, 1910–1972
