She had always loved painting flowers and flower gardens. In 1911, she had accepted Louis Comfort Tiffany’s invitation to paint his magnificent gardens at Laurelton Hall, Oyster Bay, New York. She spent several months painting there, and went on painting excursions with him, as well. I imagine that this opportunity came about because of her studies with Sorolla, who painted Tiffany’s portrait in those gardens that same year. Regarding her feelings for the flowers she loved to paint, Peterson wrote in the September 1922 issue of “The Garden Magazine” that flowers “scintillate the prismatic hues of the rainbow; they harmonize the pastel shades of the night; they are all that is delicate; all that is lurid, brilliant, bizarre. They are living things with personality and refinement, with delicacy of form and structure, with variety of size and shape, with rhythm and charm of arrangement, with grace and dignity of bearing.” That’s quite a mouthful, but as a painter who loves the challenge of painting ephemeral cut flowers myself, I understand her passion. (https://paintinglifestories.blogspot.nl/2013/08/jane-peterson-painter.html)