Sarah Peters: Appeal to Heaven

Featuring a suite of new drawings (the “Mayflower” series) and the first of a series of new bronze busts (“Descendants and Believers”), “Appeal to Heaven” represents a continuation of Peters’ in-depth exploration of the ideals and motifs of early American art and colonial history as viewed from o... Read more

Featuring a suite of new drawings (the “Mayflower” series) and the first of a series of new bronze busts (“Descendants and Believers”), “Appeal to Heaven” represents a continuation of Peters’ in-depth exploration of the ideals and motifs of early American art and colonial history as viewed from our 21st Century vantage point. Combined with her highly stylized landscapes, her portraits of the fervent idealists and puritan visionaries who risked everything to come here from Europe and their ideological heirs reveal not only a lost romanticism, but, in her words, “the chaos of initial human convictions and beliefs as tempered by time and experience.”