Artist: Stephanie Peek – American (1940- ) Title: Goldbeaters Year: 2000 Medium: Collage, silver and gold leaf on Panel Size: 10 x 10 inches Signature: Signed, dated, titled on reverse by the artist Condition: Excellent San Francisco artist Stephanie Peek’s paintings have been exhibited in both national and international galleries and museums. She graduated with an MFA in painting from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in Art History from Wellesley College, Boston. She has taught painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, Diablo Valley College, Academy of Art University, Dominican University in San Rafael, California, and has been a visiting lecturer at University of California at Berkeley. Her awards and honors include Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, Borso di Studio in Florence, Italy; J. Ruth Kelsey Travel Grant; Susan B. Irwin Scholarship in the Visual Arts; a Virginia McPheter-Stoltz Fellowship and was nominated for the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship and the SECA award at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Peek’s paintings and artists’ books have been exhibited at the Contemporary Museum of Art in Prato, Italy; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of California, San Diego; the Museo Italo-Americano, San Francisco; and the Oakland Museum of California. Her artists’ books are in the collections of the Library of Congress of the United States, the New York Public Library, Harvard and Stanford Universities and the University of California at Berkeley, as well as many private collectors nationally and internationally.