- ArtistCharles Robert Perrin (1915-1999)
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- Size18 ½ in. x 28 in.
C. Robert Perrin (1915-1999) Watercolor on Paper “Squam Head with Sankaty Lighthouse in the Distance”, signed lower left C. Robert Perrin, A.W.S. 18 ½ in. x 28 in.
Born in Medfield, Massachusetts; a graduate of the Art Institute of Boston, Perrin first painted on Nantucket in 1946. His studio on Old South Wharf evolved to become the first active gallery on the wharf in 1956, and by 1966 he’d moved permanently to Washington Street where he established a summer tradition of Wednesday evening demonstrations of his watercolor technique. Originally an illustrator by trade, C. Robert Perrin made use of his inventive nature to illustrate Island children’s books (Remember Whopper or Nancy Tucket?) and some of the first posters employed to market the island. As reported in American Artist magazine in 1959, Perrin converted a VW bus into a plein air studio on wheels. The artist favored Payne’s Gray for his watercolors of puddles, fog imagery and ghosts; and when the premier maker of watercolors announced it was discontinuing the color, Perrin lobbied successfully for its continuation. He remained active in the arts community on Nantucket for 5 decades. ~ adapted from Robert Frazier’s Nantucket Arts Buzz
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