Updated: January 2002

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Four Seasons, Feature (Spring 2002)

"[Peyton's] paintings and drawings about ordinary adoration form a counterattack to commercialized romance, reclaiming public emotional ground from fashionable affectation and returning it to personal affection. That's why her off-handedly lovely little pictures feel seriously triumphant." —The New Yorker

"...a sweet and languid glamour..." —Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker

"A monograph of paintings and photographs of the artist Tony Just, [Prince Eagle] takes as its departure point the charisma and vision of the French Emperor and the artistic inspiration of a young boy Shakespeare immortalized in a sonnet. If the book's background influences hail from Peyton's precelebrity life, then its prime influence came along just as her career started to soar." —V magazine

"Elizabeth Peyton offers [a portrait of Tony] , a sexy and tender portrait of a young man asleep in his bed. It's an astute contemporary vision of the romantic social portraiture of Sargeant and Van Dyck, drawn in the girlie style of submission to Seventeen magazine." —Surface

Prince Eagle makes a permanent record of a 'universal beauty' Peyton perceived in Tony." —ARTNews

"Peyton's work is more than...merely a girly fantasy-in-oils of sexy boys, rendered effete and non-threatening with the nonchalance of her strokes. Nor is she remotely cynical about her subjects—she fell for her boyfriend, Tony Just, because he looked like her idol, Napoleon." —Jalouse, 6 page feature