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| DICK PEREZ BIOGRAPHY  Dick Perez, born in 1940 in San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico lived from the age of six in New York City's Harlem. His love and understanding of baseball started with stickball in the streets around 125th and Amsterdam Avenue, deepened in the local playgrounds and expanded vicariously playing with his beloved New York Yankees in Yankee Stadium. He aspired to become a professional baseball player, but by the age of sixteen, a .188 batting average and a mediocre left-handed throwing ability told him he'd better look elsewhere for his life's work. His family moved to Philadelphia in 1958. After completing high school Perez attended the Philadelphia College of Art and the University of Pennsylvania and served briefly as illustrator for the United States Air Force.  He
apprenticed in both a graphic design studio and a printing company.
His work experience included a position as assistant art director
with an advertising agency and a position as art director for a publishing
company. He was co-owner of a design and printing consulting firm
and a partner in an ad agency before striking out on his own in 1976.
The culmination of these experiences resulted in a strong sense of
design, command of composition and an evident artistic maturity. Fortuity
brought him design and illustration work from the Philadelphia Eagles
and the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1970s thus beginning his involvement
in sports art. He has been the winner of numerous design awards including
the winning entry for the national contest held in 1976 to create
the official centennial logo of baseball's National League. He also
designed and illustrated the 1983 World Series program cover. Currently, Perez is a partner in Perez-Steele Galleries, a well-known publisher of sport art. His tenure with Perez-Steele Galleries has resulted in the creation of a unique body of work that art historians may well regard as the finest baseball art of the twentieth century. Perez is official artist for the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. He has painted and exhibited every Hall of Fame member at the Hall of Fame Museum. His paintings of yearly inductees are the official color portraits that go on display in the museum beginning with induction weekend and remaining on display the entire year. His art has graced the covers of various Hall of Fame publications, limited edition prints and has provided his artistic skills to many special Hall of Fame projects over the years.The art gallery room of the museum bears his name. He is also official artist for the Philadelphia Phillies and was the official artist of the Donruss Card Company painting the popular Diamond Kings series during the 1980s and 1990s. Dick Perez works primarily in oils, watercolors, acrylics and gouache. His subjects show his wide range of interests but predominantly Perez enjoys portraiture. He has concentrated primarily on the human face and figure in his sports and non-sports works. His portraiture shows the influences of such masters as John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, Joaquin Sorolla, and Diego Velazquez. He derives his inspiration for his landscapes from the American Impressionists. Continued on Next Page >> |
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