biography of Jerri RICCI (1916-1996)

Birth place: Perth Amboy, NJ

Addresses: Rockport, MA

Profession: Painter

Studied: NY Sch Appl Design for Women, 1935; ASL New York, with Scott Williams, George Bridgman, Mahonri Young & others, 1935-1938.

Exhibited: TMA; PAFA; AIC; Dayton Art Inst; Addison Gallery Am Art; plus others. Awards: Silver medal, Catharine Lorrillard Wolfe Art Club, 1954; Clara Obrig Award, NAD; gold medal, Audubon Artists, 1955; plus many others.

Member: Am WC Soc; Allied Artists Am; A.N.A.; Philadelphia WCC; Audubon Artists; Rockport AA; NYWC Soc.

Work: Fairleigh Dickinson Col; Parrish Mus, Southampton, NY; Am Acad Arts & Lett; Clark Univ, Butler Art Inst; Addison Gallery Am Art, Andover, Mass; plus others.

Sources: WW73; Artists of the Rockport Art Association (1956).