Lilla Cabot Perry - Selected Works by Lilla Cabot Perry

Painter and poet, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. A member of prominent Boston families, the Lowells and Cabots, she studied in Boston (c.1885–8) and Paris (1888), summered in France, next door to Monet in Giverny (1889–99), and lived in Japan (1893–1901). Based in Boston, she helped introduce Impressionism to America, as seen in The Trio, Tokyo (1898–1901), and also published four volumes of poetry (1886–1923).

Born to the Boston Brahmin Cabot family, socialite Lilla Cabot married Thomas Sargeant Perry, a professor of literature, with whom she had three daughters.

While in Paris, she befriended Claude Monet, and for nine summers beginning in 1889 she and her family lived near Monet's home in Giverny.

In the late 1890s, Perry's husband accepted a teaching position in Japan at Tokyo's Keiogijiku University, and for three years there she painted and absorbed Japanese influences into her own works.

Throughout her career, Lilla Perry participated in numerous arts organizations including the Guild of Boston Artists, which opened galleries to promote American painters and sculptors.

In 1933, Lilla Perry died at her family farm in Hancock, New Hampshire, aged 85.

In 1995, Meredith Martindale, Pamela Moffat and Nancy Mowll Mathews wrote Lilla Cabot Perry: An American Impressionist.

Selected Works by Lilla Cabot Perry

Self-Portrait (1892)

By the Brook, Giverny, France (1909)

Autumn Afternoon, Giverny (Unknown)

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