Peter C. Sutton

Peter C. Sutton
Born	1949
Occupation	art historian, museum director
Nationality	United States

Peter C. Sutton (born 1949) is an American art historian and former director of the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science.

He is a specialist in 17th-century Dutch art and wrote an overview of such paintings held by U.S. museums. He has written extensively on 17th-century Dutch artists, including a catalog raisonné on Pieter de Hooch, and curated several exhibitions on 17th-century Dutch art. He was head of the Wadsworth Atheneum before he became director of the Bruce Museum in 2001. On June 1, 2019, he retired from the Bruce Museum.

Sutton graduated from the Gunnery in Washington, Connecticut and Harvard University. He received his doctorate from Yale in 1978. On March 7, 1981, he married Mary Riesmeyer, the managing editor of Photo Researchers of New York. His parents are Dr. Francis Sutton and Dr. Jacqueline Sutton. His father was vice president of the international division of the Ford Foundation and his mother was a planner for the Victims Services Agency of New York.

Works

• Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684), Thesis/dissertation, 1978
• Pieter de Hooch, Oxford, Phaidon, 1980
• Dutch Art in America, Amity Trust, 1986
• Northern European paintings in the Philadelphia museum of art : from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century, 1990
• The Hoogsteder exhibition of Dutch landscapes, Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder, 1991
• Prized possessions : European paintings from private collections of friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1992
• The Golden Age of Dutch Landscape Painting, art catalog for exhibition at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1994
• The age of Rubens, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston & Toledo Museum of Art, 1994
• The William Appleton Coolidge collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1995
• Reclaimed : paintings from the collection of Jacques Goudstikker, Yale University Press, 2008

References

• Pieter de Hooch:Complete Edition, by Peter C. Sutton, Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1980, ISBN 0714818283