Peter Sager

Canadian (1920-1985)

Born in Vancouver in 1920, artist Peter Winchell Sager studied under J.W.G. MacDonald at the British Columbia College of Arts and also at the Beatrice Lennie Studio. In 1937, at the age of seventeen, Sager exhibited at his first solo show at the Vancouver Art Gallery and later exhibited in museums and galleries in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor and San Francisco. In 1948, at the recommendation of The National Gallery of Canada, Sager won the French Government Scholarship. He lived and worked in Paris for four years and while there participated in one-man shows in Paris, Cannes, Helsinki, Copenhagen and London.

Sager’s works are held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, San Francisco Civic Center, New York Public Library, Brooklyn Museum, Harvard University Fogg Museum, University of Michigan and the Odense Museum in Denmark, among others.