Peter Lyons

David Dearinger, Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Boston Athenaeum, likens Lyons’s paintings to those of Edward Hopper in having the quality of being “as real or surreal as the perception and imagination of the viewer allows (or needs) it to be.”

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Former Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and former Curator of American Art at the Fogg Museum, writes that Lyons’s paintings “look somehow familiar, but they are distinctive, different, memorable…they have both strength and credibility.”

The press kit for the 2023 Hamptons Fine Art Fair is the most recent and thorough critical overview and summary of the Lyons’s career. Introductions by Matthew Swift to Lyons’s past solo exhibitions at Matthew Swift Gallery may also be of interest.