231:. While the family was in Starkville her first younger brother, Robert Lee Miles, died within hours of his birth in 1934. Three years later, her eight-year-old brother Charles Miles died from an allergic reaction to an insect bite. Both boys were returned to Auburn to be buried at Pine Hill Cemetery, and Charles' grave marker, a broken statue of a boy holding a tray with a lizard, is one of the more well-known markers in the cemetery.
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Artists who trained with Lallah Perry, or who have noted her influence on their work, include Millie Howell, Lurline Eddy
Slaughter, Duff Dorrough, and Amy Giust. Also Harriett Ley DeWeese, who was recognized along with Millie Howell in textbooks on Mississippi HIstory in the late sixties, for being
161:. She was awarded the Mississippi Governor's Award for Artistic Excellence in 2008 as an acknowledgement of her talent and her contributions to the arts in the State of Mississippi. The Mississippi Art Colony also gives out an award in her honor and memory, the Lallah Perry Award.
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where they started a family. She continued painting and began to attend the early days of the
Mississippi Art Colony at Allison's Wells. By the 1950s her works were being selected for local exhibitions and winning prizes. She and her husband would go on to have four children.
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In 1964 she began to teach art, at first in the
Choctaw Tribal Schools and then in local public schools. In 1969 her husband died while piloting his small aircraft in a landing attempt at the local airport. Following his death she earned a master's degree in art education at
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after a fire had destroyed the group's first home at
Allison's Wells, and served as the first director of that organization following that fire. She later served for many years as the group's archivist.
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and graduated at the age of sixteen. She had met her future husband, James
Lafayette "Dick" Perry, back in Mississippi. While he was serving in the Navy during the Second World War, she enrolled at
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and graduated at the age of nineteen with a degree in commercial arts. She married Dick Perry in
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in West Palm Beach, Florida. Her work is included in many private collections. One of her paintings was exhibited at the
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518:"Vanity" not dated, oil on canvas, Mississippi Museum of Art Collection, Gift of the Lyle Cashion Company, 1963.005
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Lallah Miles was the oldest of four children born to Lee Ellis Miles and
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Lallah Perry accepting the
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in October 2008 and is buried in Cedarlawn Cemetery in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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342:"Lallah Perry Obituary - Jackson, MS | Clarion Ledger"
130:(1926–2008) was an American artist who lived and worked in
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Mississippi Governor's Award for Artistic Excellence 2008
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American, Southern, painter, art educator, and organizer
828:"Lallah Perry - mixed media - Southern Breeze Gallery"
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418:"Mississippi Art Colony records, ca. 1954-1991"
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291:outstanding artists of Mississippi.
1008:Auburn High School (Alabama) alumni
363:"History – Mississippi Art Colony"
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1003:Artists from Jackson, Mississippi
705:"Clipped From Enterprise-Journal"
159:Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi
804:. June 22, 2001. Archived from
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194:1984 Louisiana World Exposition
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881:. Univ. Press of Mississippi.
830:. June 9, 2004. Archived from
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633:"Clipped From Clarion-Ledger"
240:Alabama Polytechnic Institute
221:Alabama Polytechnic Institute
93:Alabama Polytechnic Institute
612:The Hidden History of Auburn
386:The Mississippi Encyclopedia
225:Mississippi State University
182:Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
136:Choctaw Tribal School System
1038:21st-century American women
993:People from Auburn, Alabama
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655:"Perry | ArtKabinett"
265:Meridian Community College
149:She helped reorganize the
144:Meridian Community College
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244:Philadelphia, Mississippi
174:New Orleans Museum of Art
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468:"Governor's Arts Awards"
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170:Birmingham Museum of Art
964:Lallah Perry: A Tribute
494:"ART: Gaga Over Lallah"
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186:Knoxville Museum of Art
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