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Lilla Cabot Perry, born January 13, 1848 - died February 28, 1933, was a painter responsible for introducing impressionism to her native United States.
Born a member of the Boston Brahmin Cabot family, socialite Lilla Cabot married Thomas Sargeant Perry (1845-1928), a professor of literature, with whom she had three daughters. The brother-in-law of artist John La Farge, her interest in painting led her to enroll in the Boston Cowles Art School at the age of thirty-six. It was there that one of her teachers encouraged her to do further study in France. With her family, she spent time in Paris where she studied art at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Julian. While there, she became friends with Claude Monet and for nine summers she and her family rented a home near Monet's place in Giverny. In addition to purchasing his art, she adopted some of Monet's impressionist style and eventually exhibited her work at the Paris Salon.
Landscape at Hancock, New Hampshire by Perry Back home in Boston, she exhibited the acquired work of Monet and other Impressionists in her home. She also lectured and published essays on impressionism and in 1893, seven of her works were put on display at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In the late 1890s, Perry's husband accepted a teaching position in Japan at Tokyo's Keiogijiku University and she spent three years there painting and absorbing Japanese influences into her own works.
Throughout her career, Lilla Cabot Perry was active in numerous arts organizations including the Guild of Boston Artists, which opened galleries to promote American painters and sculptors.
In 1933, Lilla Cabot Perry passed away at her family farm in Hancock, New Hampshire. In 1995, Meredith Martindale, Pamela Moffat, Nancy Mowll Mathews, published .
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