Adolphine Dolly Perutz (1908–1979) was an American sculptor and graphic artist.

Biography

Perutz was born in

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, just outside of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Perutz was Jewish; when the Germans

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in 1938, she and her husband Tino Perutz decided to move to the United States. Examples of Perutz's work are included in the collections of the

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, the

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, the

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and the

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. Her sculpture ''Bird Flying Machine'' is part of the collection of the New York City Parks department, and is on display on the roof of the Arsenal, Central Park.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Perutz, Dolly 1908 births 1979 deaths 20th-century American printmakers 20th-century American women artists American women printmakers 20th-century American Jews Czech Jews People from Beroun