Artists Pages

Pete Przekop
In 1968, he and his wife opened the Przekop Art Galleries at Pawley's Island, and although he retired from his gallery in 1987, his enthusiasm for art flourished until his death on December 7, 2007.

Reflection: Oil.

How Piece Acquired: Purchased in 1970: Funds from Citizens and Southern National Bank; Chapin Company; Peoples Savings and Loan Association.

Birthplace:
Bridgeport, Connecticut

Education:
Cooper Union Institute of Art, New York City
University of South Carolina
Columbia Art Museum

Awards:
Kingtree Arts Festival: Award-1971
Kingtree Arts Festival: Award-1970
Waccamaw Arts and Crafts Guild:1970 1st place and popular award
Waccamaw Arts and Crafts Guild:1969 1st place, 2nd place and popular award
Spring Mills Art Shows: Honorable Mention-1967
Spring Mills Art Shows: Popular Award-1965
Spring Mills Art Shows: Poplar Award-1962
Spring Mills Art Shows: Honorable Mention-1961

Exhibitions:
Numerous one-man shows.
Plantation Tours:1965,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74
1975 State Savings and Loan, Spartanburg, SC
1973 University of South Carolina at Aiken, SC
1971 Sandpiper Magazine's Gallery, Columbia, SC
1971 Myrtle Beach Convention Center
1970 State Ports Authority, Tricentenial Exhibit
1960's Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC

Juror for Exhibitions:
1976 Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC
1974,75,76 Boone Hall Plantation Festival, Mt. Pleasant, SC
1974 Chaired Myrtle Beach Sun Fun Festival Art Exhibit

Collections
Commission for the Blockade Runner Museum, Wilmington, NC
Jerico Creek oil, White House Permanent Collection, hung in Lee Atwater's office during his tenure as deputy assistant to the President on political affairs.
The collection of Vice President and Mrs Walter Mondale during the Carter administration
Cypress oil, on loan to the office of U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings for over 25 years.

Private Collections
John G. Wellman
Jimmy and Emily Smith and family, Mt Airy, NC
Smith Holcomb, Mt. Airy, NC
Dr.and Mrs. R. L. Morrison III, McClellanville, SC
William Darby
Carl W. Bleiken, Charleston, SC and Tucker, GA
Dr. And Mrs. Eric Jarrell, Mt. Airy, NC
David T. Lawrence
More that 4,000 individual paintings in the collections of various patrons