Class of: 1970

Roy Perkinson

Roy Perkinson (GRS’70) of Wellesley, Mass., had an oil painting included in Nocturnes, Sunrises & Sunsets, a group exhibition held in October 2023 at Page-Waterman Gallery & Framing in Wellesley. That month, two of Roy’s pastels of fly-fishing ties were displayed at the Copley Society of Art’s holiday small works show on Newbury Street. “When I first thought of fishing flies as subjects, I recalled Wallace Stevens’ poem, ‘Anecdote of the Jar,’” Roy writes. “It is amazing that such a mundane object, a jar—or a fishing fly—can become so arresting. That’s what poets and artists do.” Email him at roy@royperkinson.com.

From the Winter-Spring 2024 issue.