Slippered Pantaloon is a lithograph created in 1963 by American artist, Vincent Perez. It is pencil signed, titled, dated, and editioned Ap. It was printed by the artist on an ivory wove paper and the image measures 17-7/8 x 14-1/8 inches. This was most likely created while the artist was working toward his master’s degree.
Vincent Perez, printmaker, draftsman, illustrator, and educator, was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on July 17, 1938. His grandparents emigrated from Spain to the U.S. after the First World War. His mother, nearly blind since two-years-of-age, raised him in Albany, New York.
Perez supported himself doing construction throughout college and he attended night classes at the Corcoran Art School in Washington D.C. while working as an ironworker by day. He earned his BFA from the Pratt Institute. Drafted into the army, Perez was stationed at Fort Meade in Maryland and during his service he worked for the army as an illustrator,
Following his discharge, Perez began work toward his master’s degree in Mexico City at the University of the Americas and completed his degree at the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC) in Oakland, California in 1964. Perez was hired by CCAC and taught anatomy and illustration and is now Professor Emeritus. During his sixty-year career, he also illustrated for George Lucas, Disney, and Time magazine, and he published the Atlas of Human Anatomy in 2006.
The work of Vincent Perez is represented in the collections of the Vatican Museum, Rome; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Today Vincent Perez works in his studio in Kent Island, Maryland.
