ORVILLE HOUGHTON PEETS ARTIST.

ORVILLE HOUGHTON PEETS

ARTIST, PAINTER AND LITHOGRAPHER

Orville Houghton Peets, internationally known artist and lithographer died Wednesday,

April 17, 1968 in Beebe Hospital at Lewes, Delaware. He was 84 year of age and lived along

the Sussex county Indian River. He was a son of Edward Orville and Mary Houghton Peets of

Cleveland,Ohio. Edward was an artist also.

Ethel Poyntell Canby, age 37, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Tilghman Johnson Canby,

of Wilmington, Delaware and Orville Peets were married 23 September 1914.

Mr. Peets was a graduate of the Julian Academy and Ecole des Beaux-Arts, both in Paris,

France. He received awards from museums in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City.

His art work hang in Musee du Jeu de Paume in Paris, New York City Hispanic Museum,

The Delaware State House in Dover, New York Public Library, the Library of Congress and

Philadelphia and Chicago Museums of Art.

Peets was a veteran of WWI serving in France as an Intelligence Officer.

Orville Houghton Peets was a member of the Lewes Historical Society, Wilmington

Academy of Fine Arts, Rehoboth Camera Club, Delaware Historical Society and the Rehoboth Art

League.

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His funeral services were private.