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Program
NYS Historic
Subject
People
Location
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Grant Recipient
Town of Pompey Historical Society
Historic Marker

JOHN C. PERRY

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JOHN C. PERRY
BORN/LIVED IN HAMLET/DELPHI
ENTIRE LIFE (1837-1894)
PORTRAIT/LANDSCAPE ARTIST
PERMANENT COLLECTION AT
NYS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION

John Calvin Perry (1837-1894) was a farmer, teacher and artist who lived in the hamlet of Delphi Falls, in the southeast corner of the Town of Pompey. Perry painted portraits but farmed to support his family. At times he taught art at the Cazenovia Seminary and in other nearby communities. He painted landscapes for his own pleasure and many of these remain with his descendants. In 2011, the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown deaccessioned the majority of Perry’s paintings from their collection and gave them to the Pompey Historical Society.


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