WELCOME  /  BIO   /   ARTIST STATEMENT   /   PHOTO OPS   BIOGRAPHY CONTINUED His paintings are housed in collections throughout North America including the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Portraits of each year's Baseball Hall of Fame inductees are on display year round in the Perez-Steele art gallery in the museum. Among owners of Perez art are former U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. With numerous commissions and works to his credit, Perez's name has become synony-mous with Major League Baseball. He has, almost single-handedly, captured the best-known and most memorable moments of America's pastime. His sports subjects, however, are not exclusive to baseball. He has produced many paintings covering football, basketball, tennis, soccer, golf, boxing, Olympic sports and hockey. Perez has had one man exhibitions at Bianco Gallery in Lahaska PA, Spectrum Art Gallery in New York City, Lafayette College in Easton, PA and has been featured at the Chester County Historical Society in Westchester, PA. He has also participated in exhibitions including the Woodmere Art Museum, The Philadelphia Art Show, The U.S. Artists Show in Philadelphia, The Bill Gladstone Baseball Collection exhibit at Lehigh University, The Armory Show in Philadelphia, various exhibits at the Baseball Hall of Fame and other exhibits dedicated to sports art throughout the nation. In 1998 Perez was commissioned by the Pennsylvania State Bar Association to paint the official portrait of Robert N. C. Nix, Jr., retired Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The painting hangs permanently in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. In the minds of many sports enthusiasts, Dick Perez has made a remarkable contribution to the richness of sports art. In his paintings the athlete is brought to life: one can see the delineation's of character, seriousness, joy, youth and the chiseling of age. Perez activates our memories; he brings color and clarity to our recollections. In the frontispiece of a 1990 catalog of Dick Perez's work former Baseball Hall of Fame president, Edward W. Stack, said of the artist: "He crystallizes our love of the National Game and does so by marrying his consummate craftsmanship with a visual point of view in which all the elements of subject, form, color and texture sire a freshness of image unique to this artist·Dick Perez is truly a Hall of Fame artist and we are honored that he is our friend." << Back to Previous Page

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