This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| From a 1913 newspaper clipping:
"Algona woman gains fame. Mary Em Call Perkins, Daughter of Algona Pioneer, becomes famous in Paris as a landscape painter. Word comes to Algona of the great success of Mrs. Mary Em Call Perkins as a landscape painter. Mrs. Perkins, who has been spending most of her time in Paris of late years, has been honored by having one of her pictures hung in the famous French Salon. A number of Mrs. Perkins' pictures have been sold to wealthy people in California, and one is to be exhibited in the exhibition of the Public Art Gallery in Los Angeles. The fame of Mrs. Perkins pictures is well established and her work commands high prices."
She took back her maiden name after her divorce from Frederick Perkins. She was buried at Mt. Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael, California on Jan. 2, 1958.
Information provided by the artist's grand-nephew John R. Call.
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Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| Painter. Born in Algona, Iowa on Oct. 5, 1864.
Call studied in NYC with William Merritt Chase and in Paris at Acadëmie Colarossi. She was a resident of Old Lyme, CT before moving to Los Angeles in 1915. By the 1920s she had moved north to San Anselmo where she became active in the local art scene and co-founded the Mann Society of Artists in 1927.
She died in San Anselmo on Dec. 29, 1957. Her subject matter indicates travel to Paris, Picardy, and Bruges.
Exh: Kanst Gallery (LA), 1915; SFAA, 1916; Santa Cruz Art League, 1929, 1934; Calif. State Fair, 1930; GGIE, 1939; Society for Sanity in Art, CPLH, 1940; Calif. Art Club.
In: Scottish Rite Hall (LA).
AAA 1917; CA&A; AAW; SCA; DR; San Rafael Independent Journal, 12-31-1957 (obit). | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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