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Biographical/Historical Note

Impressionist painter and author; Boston, Mass., Giverny, France, and Hancock, N.H.; b. ; d. Thomas Sergeant Perry, author, educator; Boston, Mass., Giverny, France, and Hancock, N.H. Lilla Cabot Perry studied painting at Cowles Art School in Boston with Dennis Miller Bunker and Robert Vonnoh, and in Paris at the Julian and Colarossi academies, and at Alfred Stevens' studio. She had a house in Giverny, France and introduced numerous American artists, who came to Giverny to paint, to her neighbor, Claude Monet. She wrote several books of poetry including FROM THE GARDEN OF HELLAS, THE HEART OF THE WEED and THE JAR OF DREAMS. In , she married Thomas Sergeant Perry, a tutor in French and German at Harvard University and later an instructor in English. He was also the author of several books. The Perrys had three daughters, Margaret, Alice, and Edith. Alice married Joseph Clark Grew, a diplomat who was United States ambassador to Turkey and Japan, and undersecretary of state.

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Lila Cabot Perry

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Painter. Also a poet. An early exponent of impressionism in Boston, she painted landscapes, genre scenes, and portraits. Through personal friendship with Monet, she helped to popularize his work in the United States. Born in Boston into the prominent Cabot family, in she married Thomas Sargeant Perry, a professor and literary historian. As their Boston home became a gathering place for the intellectual and social elite, she studied painting at the Cowles School of Art with Robert Vonnoh and Dennis Miller Bunker. In she went to Paris to work at the Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi. Two years later she met Monet during a summer in Giverny, where she spent about ten seasons over two decades, several as his next-door neighbor. There she also befriended Camille Pisarro, as well as other progressive French and American artists. From until she painted many Japanese subjects while residing in Tokyo, where her husband had accepted a teaching position. Between and she published four volumes of poetry. From she often recorded landscape views from the surroundings of a vacation home near Mount Monadnock in Hancock, New Hampshire, where she died. Perry's debt to Monet is particularly evident in landscapes, which closely adapt her mentor's brilliant colors, vig