Eve Peri

Peri was born on September 25, 1897, in Bangor, Maine. She traveled extensively in Europe and South and Central America. She studied techniques and collected fabrics.^[2]

Peri was married several times. Her second husband was Rafael Alfonso Umaña Mendez (1908–1994), a Colombian born artist.^[1] The couple produced handwoven material that they sold in New York under the name Peri-Umaña.^[2][3]

In the early 1940s Peri began creating her "fabric forms", panels which combined embroidery and applique.^[1]

Peri died on March 4, 1966.^[2]

Her work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,^[4] the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum,^[5] the Farnsworth Art Museum,^[6] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.^[7]

In 1996 the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery in Baltimore held a retrospective exhibit entitled Eve Peri: A Modernist Spirit.^[8]