Peter Kerr ’36

AT AGE 75, Peter died Feb. 9, 1990, of natural causes at his home in Fort Meyers Beach, Fla.

He prepared at the Fountain Valley School. He left Princeton early and we believe he attended Temple Univ. He spent the rest of his life as a professional painter, sculptor, and teacher

During WWII, he spent four years as a map editor for die U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey working on aerial photography. He mapped parts of our East Coast and the Aleutian islands. He had strong interests in ecology and marine animals.

He was chairman of the art dept. of the Cranbrook School from 1957 until his retirement in 1973. In the early 1950s, he operated the Kerr School of Art in Washington, D.C., and Nantucket, where he founded the Nantucket Artists' Assn. in later life he lived and worked in Fort Myers and Camden, Me.

over the years we rarely heard from Peter However, he indeed showed interest in Princeton when, in 1953, he presented the Firestone Library a signed framed photograph of Dr. James McCosh, who was Peter's grandfather's professor at Queens College in Dublin. Later, when Dr McCosh was president of Princeton, he sent the photo to the Kerr family.

Peter is survived by sons Dr. Hugh H. Kerr and Dion D. Kerr, and two grandchildren.

The Class of I936