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Peters grew up surrounded by the post-war Latvian artist community in New York. They were family. Most had known each other and worked together in Latvia, or worked together having gravitated to New York in building a new life. The artist Otto (Atis) Grunde and his wife Erika were Peters' godparents.
Pēters' father, Jānis Vecrumba, was a television scenic artist at NBC, and secretary of the Latvian Artist Group in New York, Latviešu Mākslinieku Grupa Ņujorkā, when he passed away suddenly in 1962 at only 57.
We keep hoping more of his papers would show up in some secret box stashed away somewhere, but those dreams were dashed after emptying out Peters' parents' house and finding only Peters' father's union card.
Peters' mother threw out her husband's papers, Peters' comics including Iron Man #1 (well read, not in a collector's sleeve), but kept his Popular Photography issues.
If your parents or grandparents were part of the metropolitan New York area's Latvian artists' community, we would be honored to feature additional information and artifacts here.
The Barbizon Plaza Art Gallery was the Latvian artists' venue of choice for many years. We are particularly interested in expanding our presentation here of past exhibition catalogs.
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