World Monuments Leader Morphs Into Painter, Has Show
High up in the historic Ansonia -- favored home of singers, artists, eccentrics -- on Manhattan’s west side, Marilyn Perry is wondering which of her many paintings she likes the most.
“Maybe that one?” She ponders, pointing to a vibrant green work bursting with life. “But I’d sell it anyway.”
For decades Perry, 71, made her mark as the president of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and chairman of the World Monuments Fund, which she built into architecture’s version of the World Wildlife Fund.
