Father & Son: Colors and Connections Exhibition and Reception

Peter J. Eagleton's exhibit, Father & Son:  Colors and Connections, is a mini retrospective of works by Peter K. Eagleton (father) and Peter J. Eagleton (son). 

There will be a reception and exhibition will be held at the Bean Runner Cafe.

Peter K. Eagleton was an official U.S. Coast Guard Artist, a charter member of the American Society of Marine Artists, member of the National Maritime Historical Society, the Steamship Historical Society of America, and the Edward Hopper Foundation.  His work is in the permanent collections of the U.S. Coast Guard, the American Merchant Marine Museum, The INTREPID air-sea museum, New York, The National Maritime Historical Society, as well as those of marine collectors coast to coast, ship-owning and manufacturing companies; have exhibited at a number of major galleries, museums.  Peter K. has also written articles on the maritime scene, as seen from the industrial and/or artistic viewpoint and received the Coast Guard "George Gray Award" for outstanding artistic achievement.

Peter J. Eagleton is clear about the role that art has played in his life and in his relationship with his father.  "Art has always been my rock, an intuitive part of my life, and the thread that connected my life with my father's".  Born in Cherlottenlund, Denmark, a region just north of Copenhagen where his father worked as a ship broker, Peter J. has been drawing for as long as he can remember. Peter J.'s oil paintings are surreal in nature and deal with the reality of modern life as experienced through the subconscious mind.  His work has been shown in numerous galleries, cafés and bars in Westchester, SOHO and Greenwich Village.  

Strikingly different in style and content, the shared color palette and concerned passions of each artist cross the two generations and continue their dialog on imagery, technique, color, culture, and societal changes.  The father was grounded in the realism of majestic seafaring vessels and the passing of these as a way of life. The son intuitively taps the subconscious mind to portray the reality of modern existence and its rapid and often destructive changes.