[Peter Ralston]
[About Peter Ralston]

Peter Ralston, Photographer
Terri Ralston Photo  

Peter Ralston's photography has appeared in thirty-four books and more than fifty magazines, including American Artist, Architectural Digest, Art and Antiques, Connoisseur, National Geographic, New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, People, Smithsonian, and Time, as well as as on NBC's Today Show. Galleries in this country and abroad exhibit his images.

Terri and Peter RalstonIn addition to helping to represent the work of his friend Jamie Wyeth, Ralston has been the Wyeth family's reproduction photographer of choice since 1978. Although, as a young man, Ralston studied very briefly under Ansel Adams, he acknowledges the greater artistic influence of a lifetime of association with the Wyeths -- close friends and incisive mentors.

Instrumental in forming the Island Institute in 1983, Peter Ralston serves today as its executive vice-president. He has contributed most of the photography and served as art director for the Institute's Island Journal since its inception and continues to spend as much time as he possibly can on and around islands. He lives with his wife Terri and their children on the western side of Penobscot Bay.

Exhibitions of personal work:

  • Archipelago Fine Art Gallery–2008
  • Portland Museum of Art–2007
  • Farnsworth Art Museum–2007
  • Penobscot Marine Museum–2007
  • Center for Maine Contemporary Art–2007
  • North Haven Gallery–2007
  • Farnsworth Art Museum–2006
  • Center for Maine Contemporary Art–2006
  • Shaw Gallery–2006
  • Domaine Gallery–2006
  • Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Permanent Collection–2005
  • National Museum of American History (Smithsonian), Permanent Collection–2005
  • Farnsworth Art Museum, "Photography from the Collection"–2005
  • Harborside Gallery–2005
  • Boca Raton Museum of Art–2004
  • Art of the Sea Gallery–2004
  • Farnsworth Art Museum–2004
  • Colby College, Permanent Collection–2004
  • June Fitzpatrick Gallery–2003
  • Art of the Sea Gallery–2003
  • Archipelago–2001
  • Penobscot Marine Museum–2001
  • Maine Coast Artists–2000
  • Gallery 357–2000
  • Monhegan Museum–1999
  • United States Embassy/Sarajevo–1999
  • Farnsworth Art Museum, Permanent Collection–1998
  • North Haven Gallery–1997
  • Double Door Gallery–1997
  • Between The Muse–1997
  • Aomori Cultural Museum (Aomori, Japan), Permanent Collection–1997
  • Farnsworth Art Museum–1993
  • Portland Museum of Art, Permanent Collection–1991
  • Maine Coast Artists–1990
  • Maine Maritime Museum–1989
  • de Young Fine Arts Museum–1988
  • Arnot Art Museum, Permanent Collection–1985
  • Maine Maritime Museum–1985
  • Modernage Gallery–1982
  • Royal Academy of the Arts (London)–1981
  • Brandywine River Museum–1981
  • Today Show (NBC)–1981 & 1982
  • Delaware Art Museum–1980
  • ...as well as numerous corporate and private collections.

Professional Biography

Editorial Appearances: Peter Ralston

American Artist, American Art Review, American Heritage, Architectural Digest, Art and Antiques, Art-Talk, Audubon, Backpacker, Bangor Metro, Best of Photography - 1986, Boats and Harbors, Boston Globe, Café Review, Coastal Living, Condé Nast Traveler, Connoisseur, Country, Country Journal, Countryplace, Countryside, ART/Das Kunstmagazin, Discovery, Discovery Coast, Delaware Today, Down East, Ein Herz fur Tiere, Encyclopedia Brittanica, Energy Risk, Environmental History, Evening Magazine (TV), Fisherman's Voice, Garden Design, Geo (American and German), Habitat, Horizon, House Beautiful, Islands, Island Journal, Journal of Family Practice, Journal of the National Medical Association, London Times, Maine Times, Martha Stewart Living, Mature Outlook, Metropolitan Home, National Fisherman, National Geographic, National Wildlife, New England Living, New England Monthly, New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Nissan Discovery, Oceans, Offshore, Outdoor Photographer, People, Philadelphia Magazine, Reader's Digest Books, Sail, Smithsonian, Studio Photography, The Furrow, Time, Time-Life Books, Trailblazer, Us, US Air, Views, The Washingtonian, Weekly Reader, Wild Fibers, Women's World, Yachting Library (Italy), Yankee, and others.

Books containing exclusive or primary Ralston personal photography:

  • Writing In Stone - University of New England Press - 2008
  • Holding Ground - Island Institute, 2004 (Art Direction and primary photography)
  • Wooden Nickel - Little, Brown & Company, 2002 (Cover)
  • Lobsters Great and Small - Island Institute, 2002
  • Fishing Grounds - Island Press, 2000 (Cover)
  • Islands in Time - Down East, 1999
  • SIGHTINGS - Down East, 1997 (Personal retrospective)
  • Andrew Wyeth, A Secret Life - Harper Collins, 1997 (Cover portrait)
  • North Island Designs 4 - North Island Publishers, 1992
  • Sweaters from the Maine Islands - Yankee Books, 1991
  • Lighthouses of New England - Quintet/London, 1991
  • Maine Island Kids - North Island Publishers, 1989
  • Maine Island Classics - North Island Publishers, 1988
  • Cape Cod and the Islands - Quintet/London, 1985
  • The Maine Coast - Quintet/London, 1985

Books containing exclusive or primary Ralston reproduction photography:

Honorary Degree:

  • Doctor of Laws, Colby College, Waterville, Maine - May, 2003

Service:

 

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