Winter Beach - Block Island 51" x 35"

Peter Michael Gish has been painting since 1945. He worked withPaul Sample, after graduating Dartmouth College. He studied fresco, drawing and painting in Paris 1951-1952 and in Madrid at Academia Real de Bellas Artes. From 1957-58 attended Oskar Kokoschka's Sommerakademie in Salzburg, and was Kokoschka's assistant. He entered Yale University earning an MFA in 1964. During WWII training as a naval aviator that he decided on a painting career. In 1967 he served as a combat artist with the Marine Corps in Vietnam,and again in the early 90's in Iraq and Somalia.

Peter has exhibited his work widely, including shows at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. , The National Academy, the American Water Color Society, The City Center Gallery, Artzt Gallery, the Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery in New York City. He has had one-man shows at the Ragged Sailor Gallery, Block Island, RI, the Silvermine Guild of Artists in New Canaan, CT.