Oil on Canvas Painting by Peter Todd Mitchell

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A very colorful oil on canvas painting by Peter Todd Mitchell.
Bouquet of flowers with a surrealist Medusa image.

About … Read more A very colorful oil on canvas painting by Peter Todd Mitchell.
Bouquet of flowers with a surrealist Medusa image.

About the artist:
Born: 1924 - New York City
Died: 1988 - Sitges, Spain
Known for: Abstract and representational urban view painting, wallpaper design

He was a very talented painter and writer in Europe and the United States. Mitchell exhibited at such famous galleries as the Hanover Gallery in London and the Carstairs Gallery in New York City. For many years he supplemented his income as a painter by creating textile and wallpaper designs.

Mitchell's early years were spent in the company of the fashionable and famous surrounding his beautiful playwright mother, who was twice married to the great impressario Leon Leonidoff, Senior Producer of the Radio City Music Hall. His travels with them and his associations at an early age with a theatrical and literary crowd gave him a taste for the exotic.

He died suddenly in Sitges, a small town south of Barcelona, in 1988.
World traveler, artist and writer, he was truly a Renaissance man.

Professionally framed.
Measures: 20 3/4" H x 17 5/8" W x 1 1/2" D See less