Peter Bougie

Peter J. Bougie specializes in landscape paintings. Peter has shown at many group exhibitions around the country, including a Minnesota landscape show in the Cannon Rotunda of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1988; the American Artist’s Professional League at the Salmagundi Club, New York, 1991 and 1992; the Oil Painters of America Premier National Exhibition in Chicago, 1991; “The Legacy Lives” exhibit at the Lever Place in Manhattan, 1995; the ASCR Guild of Artists, Newington Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 2001; the ASCR Guild, Recent Work at Tree’s Place Gallery, Orleans, Massachusetts, 2002; and at exhibits at Hillsdale College and at Vose Galleries in Boston, MA, among others. In 1994 he was featured in an interview format in the periodical “The Classical Realism Journal” (Volume I, issue 2) along with three other painters. In 1995 he became an Associate Editor of the CRJ, and in 1997 he became its editor. He has been interviewed about training painters in the article “Ge Real,” City Pages, Minneapolis, 2000, and in the American Spectator, 2002. His work was reproduced in American Artist magazine in 1990 and again in 2004, and was included in the book “The Artist and the American Landscape,” First Glance Books, 1998. His paintings are in private and corporate collections around the U.S. In recent years, Bougie has focused on private showings in home settings. 

Bougie is a 1987 graduate of Atelier Lack, Minneapolis, where he studied painting for four years with Richard Lack. He was co-founder and Director of The Bougie Studio in Minneapolis where he taught drawing and painting from 1988 until 2003. He currently lives with his wife Nora Koch in River Falls, Wisconsin and works out of his home studio.