The inimitable, gregarious Peter Hunt was born Frederick Lowe Schnizer in East Orange, New Jersey. After stops in World War I and Greenwich Village, Hunt arrived in Provincetown, Massachusetts, sometime in the 1920s by means of one or more dubious narratives, each having its origin with the unreliable raconteur. Hunt made common items such as furniture and fabrics into his canvas, recreating them into vivid and writ-large folk art. He drew from a field of recognizable symbols and images: angels, cats, hearts, birds, owls, lovers, and flowers transformed found items into singular works of art that read as both cultural touchstones and modernist boundary breaking.