Lilla Cabot Perry sketchbook
name: label: Creator
content: Perry, Lilla Cabot
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New Hampshire -- Hancock
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The lendor, Lilla Grew Levitt, is Lilla Cabot Perry's granddaughter.
creator: label: Creator
content: Perry, Lilla Cabot
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter. Born in 1848 in Boston, Mass., Perry studied at Cowles Art School under D. M. Bunker and R. W. Vonnoh in Boston. She also studied at the Julian and Colarossi academies and at Alfred Stevens' studio in Paris. She died in 1933 in Hancock, N.H.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item ((on a partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1871-1885
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.perrlils
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3681 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A sketchbook (January 1871) contains 41 pages of pencil sketches. Subjects include annotated anatomical sketches, figure studies in action poses, and sketches of women and children, including two of Perry's daughter, Edith. A finished pencil and chalk drawing portrays her husband, Thomas Sergeant Perry (1885).