Peri Schwartz (1951-2021) received her BFA from Boston University and her MFA from Queens College. Her figurative, oftentimes abstract work includes paintings, color prints, and monotypes.
Schwartz drew emotive depictions of inanimate objects, including books, fruit, and studio set-ups. A common element in her drawings and paintings was the grid, which guided her arrangements and remained in the finished work. Her Bottle and Jars series, which spanned mediums, has drawn comparison to Morandi.
Her work is held in numerous museum collections throughout the United States and Europe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, the Albertina Museum in Vienna, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
“Her groupings have a relaxed, almost spontaneous feeling, but each has been carefully considered against a grid of charcoal and black tape that Peri draws onto her arrangements, running across the books and table, over the windows and walls. From her vantage point, these lines converse into an uninterrupted grid.”
Cody Upton, Executive Director of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
- Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
- Allen Memorial Art Gallery, Oberlin, OH
- Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
- Art, Design, & Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
- Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, Spain
- Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France
- Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
- Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
- Davison Art Center, Middletown, CT
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
- Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI
- Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
- Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
- Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
- Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA
- Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
- Library of Congress, Washington, DC
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL
- McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
- Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Minneapolis Art Institute, Minneapolis, MN
- Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
- Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
- Neuberger Museum, Harrison, NY
- New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
- New York Historical Society, New York, NY
- New York Public Library, New York, NY
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
- Staatliche Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Syracuse University Art Collection, Syracuse, NY
- University of Alberta Art and Artifact Collection, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR
- University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
- Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
- Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
- BankAmerica
- Capital One Services
- Clorox Corporation
- Fidelity Investments
- Gibson Dunn
- Harris Bank
- Mass General Hospital
- Meditech
- Neiman Marcus
- Parasol Press
- Pfizer Inc
- Warren Stephens
- Wellington Management
MUSEUM GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2019 | Growing the Collection, Minneapolis Museum of Art. Minn., MN |
| Starting Something New: Recent Acquisitions, Mead Museum, Amherst, MA | |
| 2017 | Still Lifes, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY |
| 2016 | New Acquisitions, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR |
| 2015 | Exxpectations, Cornell Museum of Art, Delray, FL |
| 2014 | Face to Face, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR |
| 2010 | On the Wall/Off the Wall: Modern American Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS |
| Old & New: Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Collection, Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT |
MUSEUM GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2019 | Growing the Collection, Minneapolis Museum of Art. Minn., MN |
| Starting Something New: Recent Acquisitions, Mead Museum, Amherst, MA | |
| 2017 | Still Lifes, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY |
| 2016 | New Acquisitions, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR |
| 2015 | Exxpectations, Cornell Museum of Art, Delray, FL |
| 2014 | Face to Face, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR |
| 2010 | On the Wall/Off the Wall: Modern American Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS |
| Old & New: Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Collection, Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT |
EDUCATION
| 1975 | Masters of Fine Arts, Queens College |
| 1973 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, Boston University |