Four Seasons Publishing Art Calendars and Wall Calendars

This 2011 Peter Rolfe Calendar is our 19th edition. As I look over this year's images I am struck by Peter's complete confidence when it comes to painting, especially outside the studio. He will tackle any subject!! And nothing seems to get in his way. It doesn't seem to matter what the weather is - snow, rain, wind, dust or extreme heat. I've seen him on a sidewalk in Paris in 100 degree heat happily painting away for hours without lunch or even a drink of water. It don't think that is an exaggeration to call Peter a master; and after almost forty years behind the easel I guess it is no wonder.

Peter has the confidence to go outside, set up his equipment and come back with images such as the February street scene of flower vendors and historic Spanish colonial architecture (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico) or March's beautiful Victorian mansion (Savannah). The shrimp boats at Frogmore, South Carolina were painted on his last trip to the South Carolina Low Country.

Maine is heavenly in summer and fall. The September schooners were done on the Portland Waterfront. June's twilight image captures one of the most quintessential Maine icons - lupines (a cove near Biddeford Pool). The April image was painted on Portland's West End. The October tideground is just north of Kennebunkport at Cape Porpoise. As a native Mainer, Peter loves the winter landscape - that January scene (South Thomaston) has the crystal quality of a winter night. August's image of "Beacon Hill across the Charles River" (Boston) is a portion of a 40"x48" painting. The December scene of the Beacon Hill townhouse was done on Chestnut Street in Boston and November's vineyard was painted in Toiano, near Siena (Italy).