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Enoch Wood Perry Jr

Enoch Wood Perry, Jr. (1831 - 1915) was active/lived in New York, California, Massachusetts, Hawaii.  Enoch Perry Jr is known for Genre, figure, portrait and landscape painting.

Born in 1831 in Boston, Enoch Wood Perry, Jr, is internationally recognized for genre subjects -depictions of people engaged in everyday activities, and also for portraits of prominent Americans, including Ulysses S. Grant and Jefferson Davis.

He was educated at the Düsseldorf Academy in Germany and then at Thomas Couture's studio in France. Perry also traveled to Venice, where he served as the U.S. Consul between 1856 and 1858. When he returned to the United States in 1856, he dedicated his painting to the pursuit of American themes.

Like many Americans artists, Perry was likely intrigued by the books, travel articles, and photographs that began to circulate in the mid-nineteenth century. He traveled to northern California, where he spent several years sketching and painting with Albert Bierstadt, one of the premier painters of the American West, taking special interest in the magnificence of Yosemite Valley and its changing climate.

In 1864, Perry sailed to Hon   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7834 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Enoch Wood Perry Jr

   Publications  Book References:  60
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Enoch Wood Perry, Jr.
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Hawaii and Its People June 2001 Saville, Jennifer Yes
American Art Review Collection of John and Dolores Beck December 2000 Leeds, Valerie Ann Yes
Art & Auction The Quiet Americans November 2000 Wallis, Stephen Yes
60 Book References for Enoch Wood Perry, Jr.
Year Author Title Pages Color
2021 Peterson, Dr. Larry Len The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction 528 Yes
2006 Scott, Amy (Editor); Brian Bibby, William Deverell, et all Yosemite: Art of an American Icon
(Exhibition catalog)
221 Yes
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
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2004 Hankin, Lisa Bush Selections III Brock & Co. 47 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
2001 Vern G. Swanson, Robert S. Olpin, Donna L. Poulton, and Janie L. Rogers 150 Year Survey: Utah Art and Artists 160 Yes
2000 Florida Museum of Fine Arts An American Palette: Works from Collection of John/Dolores Beck 0 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Hjalmarson, Birgitta Artful Players: Artistic Life in Early San Francisco 255 Yes
1996 Delehanty, Randolph Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection 292 Yes
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1995 Severens, Martha R Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection 289 Yes
1993 Holzer, Harold/Mark E Neely Jr Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory The Civil War in Art 336 Yes
1993 Southwest Art The Red Book Western American Price Index 126 No
1992 Forbes, David Encounters with Paradise Views of Hawaii and Its People 1778-1941 285 Yes
1992 Kammen, Michael Meadows of Memory Images of Time & Tradition in American Art & Culture 192 No
1991 Howat, John K (foreward) American Watercolors From Metropolitan Museum of Art 204 Yes
1991 Koshkin-Youritzin, Victor American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
204 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1989 Blaugrund, Annette Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition
(Exhibition catalog)
304 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1989 National Gallery of Art American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
203 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
472 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Mahe, John A. II; Rosanne McCaffrey (Editors) Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918 464 No
1987 Simon, Robin The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914 255 Yes
1986 Edwards, Lee M; Jan Seidler Ramirez; Timothy Anglin Burgard Domestic Bliss Family Life in American Painting 1840-1910
(Exhibition catalog)
160 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Salinger, Margaretta Masterpieces of American Painting The Metropolitan Museum of Art 200 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Spasky, Natalie American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45 671 No
1984 Chambers, Bruce W Art and Artists of the South Robert P Coggins Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
149 Yes
1982 Soria, Regina Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940) 332 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Nygren, Edward/Julie R Myers Of Time and Place American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)
196 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)
325 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Marzio, Peter, C The Democratic Art: An Exhibition on the History of Chromolithography in America, 1840-1900 (Amon Carter Museum)
(Exhibition catalog)
112 Yes
1978 Richards, Jane L American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era
(Exhibition catalog)
66 Yes
1978 Williams, Herman Warner Jr Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900 248 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)
1075 No
1970 Landgren, Marchal E American Pupils of Thomas Couture
(Exhibition catalog)
65 No
1965 Haseltine, James L 100 Years of Utah Painting Selected Works from the1840s to the 1940s
(Exhibition catalog)
62 Yes
1956 King, Edward S/Marvin C Ross Walters Art Gallery Catalogue of the American Works of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
63 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)
160 No
1879 Sheldon, G W American Painters With Eighty-three Engraved Examples of Their Work 184 No
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