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"'If one can really penetrate the life of another age, one is penetrating the life of one's own.' So wrote
T.S. Eliot on the translation of historical literature. Similarly, in the paintings of Peter Waddell,
representation should not be confused with reproduction. For Waddell, 'history painting' is never merely
the direct portrayal of historical fact. Rather, it is an act of penetration - penetration into the past,
and the subsequent recreation of that past in the present.
"History painting could be considered an art reliant on veracity tempered by invention, on historical
fidelity filtered by the subjectivity of recollection. This is artistic territory, located by Waddell, on
the boundary between history and legend: a point where historical fact and artistic creativity,
reconstruction and interpretation, blend into a third, transcendent visionary reality.
"Peter Waddell is an artist for whom history can be neither illustrated nor concluded - rather painted, and
thereby recreated. It's an imaginative cartography of that other country: the past."
Bede Scott, Art Historian
Interested in owning a Peter Waddell original?
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**Library for the Whole American People
36" x 60", oil on canvas
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The Wings: Tudor Place
18" x 48", oil on canvas
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Building the Octagon
36" x 60", oil on canvas
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Return to the White House
24" x 84", oil on canvas
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Raising the Monument
36" x 36", oil on canvas
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George Washington: Architect
36" x 60", oil on canvas
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**The Spirit of Washington: 1842
60" x 60", oil on canvas
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**The Marble Room: An Evening's Work, 1871
48" x 48", oil on canvas
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**Samuel F.B. Morse - Scientist: 1864
32" x 32", oil on canvas
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**The Speaker's Office in Summer Dress: 1861
36" x 48", oil on canvas
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Fleeing the Coop
54" x 54", oil on canvas
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Conversation Piece
54" x 66", oil on canvas
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Closing Up
48" x 66", oil on canvas
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A Desirable Lot
oil on canvas
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The Burning of the White House
24" x 84", oil on canvas
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Family Tea
36" x 48", oil on canvas
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Dolly Madison at the Octagon
48" x 36", oil on canvas
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Architect & Client
oil on canvas
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The President's House in Flames
oil on canvas
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L'Enfant has a Magnificent Plan
60" x 60", oil on canvas
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