"During his lifetime, Peter Meller was best known as an art historian, a
highly regarded expert on the art of Renaissance Italy. Few people
outside a small circle of friends and admirers knew that he was also a
brilliant graphic artist. When he died in 2008, at the age of 85, he
left behind thousands of drawings and prints, a body of work remarkable
for its size but also for its overwhelming imaginative abundance,
elegance, sophistication, and humor. His work had been exhibited only a
few times in and around Santa Barbara, California, where he spent the
last half of his life; he sold some prints and gave many away as gifts.
Since his death, the quality and significance of his achievement have
begun to be appreciated by a larger audience."
