Background
Perry was born on January 25, 1870 in New York City to George and Ione Hinton Perry.
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Original hand-painted architectural plans and original photos, Produced on the dates shown. Not a copy or reproduction. Very scarce.
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Perry was born on January 25, 1870 in New York City to George and Ione Hinton Perry.
He entered the École des Beaux Arts in 1890 at the age of 19. At 21, he studied at the Académie Julian and Académie Delécluse in Paris and focused on sculpture, the medium in which he would achieve the most artistic success.
In 1899 he painted The Valkyrie, depicting a misty figure of a Valkyrie hovering over a horde of marching soldiers. His sculptural achievements include the Fountain of Neptune at the Library of Congress (1897), the Langdon Doors at the Buffalo Historical Society (1901), the statuary, Pennsylvania, on the dome of the Capitol at Harrisburg, Pa. (1904), the Benjamin Rush Memorial, and the concrete lions, each 9 feet (2. 7 meters) in height and weighing 20 tons, on the Connecticut Avenue Bridge in Washington, D. C. In 1903 he painted the frieze and other decorations for the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City, and in 1916 he took up portrait painting, becoming one of the most fashionable painters in New York.
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The Grand Central Art Galleries, the National Sculpture Society
Perry's cousin was the sculptor Clio Hinton Bracken, and the two shared studio space for a time.