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Clara L Fairfield Perry

Clara L Fairfield Perry (1870 - 1941) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts, California.  Clara Perry is known for Landscape painting.

Born in Brooklyn, New York on December 2, 1870, Clara was the secretary to Walter Scott Perry, whom she married.  She studied art later in life, and was in California during the winter of 1917.  While on the West Coast, she painted in Yosemite and at Mt. Rainier. 

Her husband Walter Scott Perry was the first director of Fine and Applied Arts at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

She died in Boston, Massachusetts on Sept. 28, 1941.

Member:
Brooklyn Society of Artists; Marblehead (MA) AA.

Exh:
Palace of FA (SF), 1918; Stanford Univ. Gallery, 1918.

Sources:
1 Ben; Fid; KOV; AAA 1903-33; American Magazine, July 1918; LA Times, 6-2-1918; WWAA 1936-41; Boston Globe and NY Times, 9-30-1941 (obits).
Additional information courtesy of the artist's grand-daughter Susan Perry Pike.

Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"


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Facts about Clara L Fairfield Perry

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12 Book References for Clara L Fairfield Perry
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West 405 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)
600 No
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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