Vincent Petersen Winter Mountain Landscape

This striking print after Vincent Petersen depicts a glowing red rock mountain illuminated by dramatic winter light. Snow blankets the rugged terrain, with evergreens rising in shadowed valleys beneath a sky streaked with clouds in rose and violet hues. Petersen’s signature use of bold contrasting colors and impressionistic brushwork is evident, capturing both the vitality and serenity of the Southwestern landscape. The artist’s name appears lower right within the image. Presented in a beveled ebony frame with red matting, behind glass, ready to hang.

Condition:
Good overall. The image is clean and vibrant. The frame shows scattered scuffs from handling, as shown, but remains solid and displays well.

Size:
Overall: 26 7/8 x 38 7/8 inches
Visible: 22 x 34 inches

Artist Biography:
Vincent Petersen, OFM Conv., is a Conventual Franciscan friar and painter celebrated for his luminous acrylic Earthscapes. Raised in rural Minnesota, he studied Studio Art at Saint Louis University and earned his Master of Divinity at the Washington Theological Union before ordination in 1985. His vocation and artistry are deeply entwined, presenting nature as both subject and spiritual revelation. From 1997 to 2015, Petersen lived in the American Southwest, where the desert and mountain landscapes became central to his visual language. His first solo show was held at Hal Marcus Gallery in El Paso in 2006, and his works remain represented there.

Today Petersen is Resident Friar Artist at the Mount Saint Francis Center for Spirituality in Indiana, where he paints, teaches, and leads retreats. His art is informed by the Franciscan tradition and Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’, highlighting the sacredness and fragility of the natural world. Collectors prize his works for their bold color, spiritual resonance, and unique blending of ecology, faith, and contemporary landscape painting.