1929 - 2011
Perry studied at Columbia University in New York, the University of California at Berkeley, and Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. He won the Prix de Rome in architecture from the American Academy in Rome in 1964 and lived and worked in Rome for a number of years before settling in Norwalk, Connecticut. He taught at the American Academy in Rome and at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Perry was a member of the Sculptors Guild and the Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, Connecticut. He had one-artist shows at the ALpha Gallery, Los Angeles; the Hopkins Art Center, Dartmouth; and the Arts Club of Chicago; and had public commissions from the University of South Carolina; the Ministry of Defense, Saudia Arabia; and the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.