(1890 - 1957)
Peter Marienus Camfferman was active/lived in Washington. Peter Camfferman is known for modernist landscape, etching, education.
Biography Peter Camfferman
A landscape painter, etcher and art educator, Peter Camfferman was born
in The Hague, Holland and at age twelve, emigrated to America. He
studied with Andre Lhote at the Lhote Atelier in Paris and at the
Minneapolis School of Fine
Art where he met his future wife, Margaret Gove Camfferman. The
couple married in 1914, and the following year moved to Langley,
Washington on Whidbey Island where they built a home they called
Brackenwood. They did all of the work by hand including the
making of furniture out of driftwood they gathered. The site
included cabins for visiting artists and
became known as the Brackenwood Art Colony. They held art classes on their property, and Peter was a teacher at the
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