biography of Jack PERLMUTTER (1920-2006)

Birth place: NYC

Addresses: Wash., DC

Profession: Painter, printmaker

Exhibited: Corcoran Gal biennials, 1949-65 (6 times); "American Prints Today," Print Council Am., exhibited in ten cities, 1959-60; "3rd & 4th Expos Gravure," Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, 1959 & 1961; First Int. Exhib. Fine Arts Saigon, 1962 (print prize); "Third Nat. Invitational Exhib. Printmaking," Univ. Wis., 1971; "Second Nat. Invitational Print Show," San Diego AM, 1971. Other awards: Fulbright grant in art & printmaking to Tokyo, Japan, 1959-60.

Member: Soc. Am. Graphic Artists; Cosmos Cl. (art comt., 1963-70s).

Work: NGA; Phillips Coll.; Corcoran Gal; MMA; Nat MoMA, Tokyo, Japan. Commissions: "First Saturn Moon Rocket Launching" (painting), 1967 & "Saturn V, Apollo 6" (painting), 1968, NASA, Kennedy Space Ctr., Fla.; woodcuts for Apollo 1916, Mission Control Cntr., Houston, 1972.

Comments: Positions: dir, Dickey Gal, DC Teachers Col, 1956-68. Teaching: chmn. dept. graphics, Corcoran Sch. Art, 1961-70s. Author: "Transactions of 5th International Conference of Orientalists" (Toho Gakkai) in Japanese Prints Today, July, 1960; "Western Art Influences in Japan," in Today's Japan Orient/West, Aug., 1960; "Painting in a Land of Transition " Inst. Intl. Educ. mag., Jan., 1961.

Sources: WW73; "A Perlmutter Original," Washington Star Sun. Mag., Nov., 1962; reproduction in Art Today (Holt, Rinehart & Winston)